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.\" $Id: ppp.8,v 1.133 1998/10/31 17:38:47 brian Exp $
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.Dd 20 September 1995
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.Os FreeBSD
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.Dt PPP 8
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ppp
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.Nd Point to Point Protocol (a.k.a. user-ppp)
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Oo
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.Fl auto |
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.Fl background |
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.Fl ddial |
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.Fl direct |
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.Fl dedicated
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.Oc
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.Op Fl alias
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.Op Ar system ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This is a user process
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.Em PPP
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software package. Normally,
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.Em PPP
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is implemented as a part of the kernel (e.g. as managed by
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.Xr pppd 8 )
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and it's thus somewhat hard to debug and/or modify its behaviour.
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However, in this implementation
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.Em PPP
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is done as a user process with the help of the
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tunnel device driver (tun).
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.Sh Major Features
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.Bl -diag
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.It Provides interactive user interface.
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Using its command mode, the user can
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easily enter commands to establish the connection with the remote end, check
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the status of connection and close the connection. All functions can
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also be optionally password protected for security.
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.It Supports both manual and automatic dialing.
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Interactive mode has a
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.Dq term
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command which enables you to talk to your modem directly. When your
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modem is connected to the remote peer and it starts to talk
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.Em PPP ,
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.Nm
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detects it and switches to packet mode automatically. Once you have
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determined the proper sequence for connecting with the remote host, you
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can write a chat script to define the necessary dialing and login
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procedure for later convenience.
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.It Supports on-demand dialup capability.
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By using
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.Fl auto
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mode,
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.Nm
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will act as a daemon and wait for a packet to be sent over the
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.Em PPP
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link. When this happens, the daemon automatically dials and establishes the
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connection.
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In almost the same manner
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.Fl ddial
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mode (direct-dial mode) also automatically dials and establishes the
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connection. However, it differs in that it will dial the remote site
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any time it detects the link is down, even if there are no packets to be
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sent. This mode is useful for full-time connections where we worry less
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about line charges and more about being connected full time.
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A third
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.Fl dedicated
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mode is also available. This mode is targeted at a dedicated link
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between two machines.
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.Nm Ppp
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will never voluntarily quit from dedicated mode - you must send it the
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.Dq quit all
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command via its diagnostic socket. A
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.Dv SIGHUP
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will force an LCP renegotiation, and a
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.Dv SIGTERM
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will force it to exit.
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.It Supports client callback.
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.Nm Ppp
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can use either the standard LCP callback protocol or the Microsoft
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CallBack Control Protocol (ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/rfc/cbcp.txt).
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.It Supports packet aliasing.
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Packet aliasing (a.k.a. IP masquerading) allows computers on a
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private, unregistered network to access the Internet. The
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.Em PPP
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host acts as a masquerading gateway. IP addresses as well as TCP and
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UDP port numbers are aliased for outgoing packets and de-aliased for
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returning packets.
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.It Supports background PPP connections.
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In background mode, if
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.Nm
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successfully establishes the connection, it will become a daemon.
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Otherwise, it will exit with an error. This allows the setup of
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scripts that wish to execute certain commands only if the connection
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is successfully established.
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.It Supports server-side PPP connections.
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In direct mode,
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.nm
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acts as server which accepts incoming
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.Em PPP
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connections on stdin/stdout.
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.It Supports PAP and CHAP authentication.
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With PAP or CHAP, it is possible to skip the Unix style
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.Xr login 1
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procedure, and use the
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.Em PPP
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protocol for authentication instead. If the peer requests Microsoft
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CHAP authentication and
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.Nm
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is compiled with DES support, an appropriate MD4/DES response will be
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made.
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.It Supports Proxy Arp.
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When
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.Em PPP
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is set up as server, you can also configure it to do proxy arp for your
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connection.
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.It Supports packet filtering.
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User can define four kinds of filters: the
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.Em in
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filter for incoming packets, the
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.Em out
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filter for outgoing packets, the
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.Em dial
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filter to define a dialing trigger packet and the
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.Em alive
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filter for keeping a connection alive with the trigger packet.
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.It Tunnel driver supports bpf.
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The user can use
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.Xr tcpdump 1
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to check the packet flow over the
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.Em PPP
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link.
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.It Supports PPP over TCP capability.
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If a device name is specified as
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.Em host Ns No : Ns Em port ,
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.Nm
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will open a TCP connection for transporting data rather than using a
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conventional serial device.
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.It Supports IETF draft Predictor-1 and DEFLATE compression.
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.Nm
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supports not only VJ-compression but also Predictor-1 and DEFLATE compression.
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Normally, a modem has built-in compression (e.g. v42.bis) and the system
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may receive higher data rates from it as a result of such compression.
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While this is generally a good thing in most other situations, this
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higher speed data imposes a penalty on the system by increasing the
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number of serial interrupts the system has to process in talking to the
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modem and also increases latency. Unlike VJ-compression, Predictor-1 and
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DEFLATE compression pre-compresses
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.Em all
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network traffic flowing through the link, thus reducing overheads to a
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minimum.
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.It Supports Microsoft's IPCP extensions.
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Name Server Addresses and NetBIOS Name Server Addresses can be negotiated
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with clients using the Microsoft
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.Em PPP
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stack (ie. Win95, WinNT)
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.It Supports Multi-link PPP
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It is possible to configure
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.Nm
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to open more than one physical connection to the peer, combining the
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bandwidth of all links for better throughput.
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.El
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.Sh PERMISSIONS
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.Nm Ppp
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is installed as user
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.Dv root
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and group
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.Dv network ,
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with permissions
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.Dv 4554 .
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By default,
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.Nm
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will not run if the invoking user id is not zero. This may be overridden
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by using the
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.Dq allow users
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command in
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
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When running as a normal user,
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.Nm
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switches to user id 0 in order to alter the system routing table, set up
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system lock files and read the ppp configuration files. All
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external commands (executed via the "shell" or "!bg" commands) are executed
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as the user id that invoked
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.Nm ppp .
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Refer to the
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.Sq ID0
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logging facility if you're interested in what exactly is done as user id
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zero.
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.Sh GETTING STARTED
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When you first run
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.Nm
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you may need to deal with some initial configuration details.
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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Your kernel must include a tunnel device (the GENERIC kernel includes
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one by default). If it doesn't, or if you require more than one tun
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interface, you'll need to rebuild your kernel with the following line in
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your kernel configuration file:
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.Pp
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.Dl pseudo-device tun N
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.Pp
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where
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.Ar N
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is the maximum number of
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.Em PPP
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connections you wish to support.
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.It
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Check your
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.Pa /dev
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directory for the tunnel device entries
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.Pa /dev/tunN ,
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where
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.Sq N
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represents the number of the tun device, starting at zero.
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If they don't exist, you can create them by running "sh ./MAKEDEV tunN".
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This will create tun devices 0 through
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.Ar N .
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.It
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Make sure that your system has a group named
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.Dq network
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in the
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.Pa /etc/group
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file and that that group contains the names of all users expected to use
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.Nm ppp .
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Refer to the
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.Xr group 5
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manual page for details. Each of these uses must also be given access
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using the
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.Dq allow users
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command in
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
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.It
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Create a log file.
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.Nm Ppp
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uses
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.Xr syslog 3
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to log information. A common log file name is
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.Pa /var/log/ppp.log .
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To make output go to this file, put the following lines in the
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.Pa /etc/syslog.conf
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file:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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!ppp
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*.*<TAB>/var/log/ppp.log
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Make sure you use actual TABs here. If you use spaces, the line will be
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silently ignored by
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.Xr syslogd 8 .
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.Pp
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It is possible to have more than one
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.Em PPP
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log file by creating a link to the
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.Nm
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executable:
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.Pp
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.Dl # cd /usr/sbin
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.Dl # ln ppp ppp0
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.Pp
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and using
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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!ppp0
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*.*<TAB>/var/log/ppp0.log
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.Ed
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.Pp
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in
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.Pa /etc/syslog.conf .
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Don't forget to send a
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.Dv HUP
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signal to
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.Xr syslogd 8
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after altering
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.Pa /etc/syslog.conf .
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.It
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Although not strictly relevant to
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.Nm ppp Ns No s
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operation, you should configure your resolver so that it works correctly.
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This can be done by configuring a local DNS
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.Pq using Xr named 8
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or by adding the correct
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.Sq name-server
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lines to the file
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.Pa /etc/resolv.conf .
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Refer to the
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.Xr resolv.conf 5
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manual page for details.
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.Pp
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Alternatively, if the peer supports it,
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.Nm
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can be configured to ask the peer for the nameserver address(es) and to
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update
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.Pa /etc/resolv.conf
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automatically. Refer to the
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.Dq enable dns
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command below for details.
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.El
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.Sh MANUAL DIALING
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In the following examples, we assume that your machine name is
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.Dv awfulhak .
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when you invoke
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.Nm
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(see
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.Em PERMISSIONS
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above) with no arguments, you are presented with a prompt:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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ppp ON awfulhak>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The
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.Sq ON
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part of your prompt should always be in upper case. If it is in lower
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case, it means that you must supply a password using the
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.Dq passwd
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command. This only ever happens if you connect to a running version of
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.Nm
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and have not authenticated yourself using the correct password.
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.Pp
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You can start by specifying the device name, speed and parity for your modem,
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and whether CTS/RTS signalling should be used (CTS/RTS is used by
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default). If your hardware does not provide CTS/RTS lines (as
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may happen when you are connected directly to certain PPP-capable
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terminal servers),
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.Nm
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will never send any output through the port; it waits for a signal
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which never comes. Thus, if you have a direct line and can't seem
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to make a connection, try turning CTS/RTS off:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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ppp ON awfulhak> set line /dev/cuaa0
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ppp ON awfulhak> set speed 38400
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ppp ON awfulhak> set parity even
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ppp ON awfulhak> set ctsrts on
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ppp ON awfulhak> show modem
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* Modem related information is shown here *
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ppp ON awfulhak>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The term command can now be used to talk directly with your modem:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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ppp ON awfulhak> term
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at
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OK
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atdt123456
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CONNECT
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login: ppp
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Password:
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Protocol: ppp
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.Ed
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.Pp
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When the peer starts to talk in
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.Em PPP ,
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.Nm
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detects this automatically and returns to command mode.
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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ppp ON awfulhak>
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Ppp ON awfulhak>
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PPp ON awfulhak>
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PPP ON awfulhak>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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If it does not, it's possible that the peer is waiting for your end to
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start negotiating. To force
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.Nm
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to start sending PPP configuration packets to the peer, use the
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.Dq ~p
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command to enter packet mode.
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.Pp
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You are now connected! Note that
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.Sq PPP
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in the prompt has changed to capital letters to indicate that you have
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a peer connection. If only some of the three Ps go uppercase, wait 'till
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either everything is uppercase or lowercase. If they revert to lowercase,
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it means that
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.Nm
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couldn't successfully negotiate with the peer. This is probably because
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your PAP or CHAP authentication name or key is incorrect. A good first step
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for troubleshooting at this point would be to
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.Dq set log local phase .
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Refer to the
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.Dq set log
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command description below for further details.
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.Pp
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When the link is established, the show command can be used to see how
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things are going:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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PPP ON awfulhak> show modem
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* Modem related information is shown here *
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PPP ON awfulhak> show ccp
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* CCP (compression) related information is shown here *
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PPP ON awfulhak> show lcp
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* LCP (line control) related information is shown here *
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PPP ON awfulhak> show ipcp
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* IPCP (IP) related information is shown here *
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PPP ON awfulhak> show link
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* Link (high level) related information is shown here *
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PPP ON awfulhak> show bundle
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* Logical (high level) connection related information is shown here *
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.Ed
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.Pp
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At this point, your machine has a host route to the peer. This means
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that you can only make a connection with the host on the other side
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of the link. If you want to add a default route entry (telling your
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machine to send all packets without another routing entry to the other
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side of the
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.Em PPP
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link), enter the following command:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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PPP ON awfulhak> add default HISADDR
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The string
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.Sq HISADDR
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represents the IP address of the connected peer.
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If the
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.Dq add
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command fails due to an existing route, you can overwrite the existing
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route using
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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PPP ON awfulhak> add! default HISADDR
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.Ed
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.Pp
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You can now use your network applications (ping, telnet, ftp etc.)
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in other windows on your machine.
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Refer to the
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.Em PPP COMMAND LIST
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section for details on all available commands.
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.Sh AUTOMATIC DIALING
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To use automatic dialing, you must prepare some Dial and Login chat scripts.
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See the example definitions in
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample
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(the format of
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
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is pretty simple).
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Each line contains one comment, inclusion, label or command:
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.Bl -bullet
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.It
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A line starting with a
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.Pq Dq #
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character is treated as a comment line. Leading whitespace are ignored
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when identifying comment lines.
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.It
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An inclusion is a line beginning with the word
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.Sq !include .
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It must have one argument - the file to include. You may wish to
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.Dq !include ~/.ppp.conf
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for compatibility with older versions of
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.Nm ppp .
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.It
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A label name starts in the first column and is followed by
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a colon
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.Pq Dq \&: .
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.It
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A command line must contain a space or tab in the first column.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
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file should consist of at least a
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.Dq default
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section. This section is always executed. It should also contain
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one or more sections, named according to their purpose, for example,
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.Dq MyISP
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would represent your ISP, and
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.Dq ppp-in
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would represent an incoming
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.Nm
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configuration.
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You can now specify the destination label name when you invoke
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.Nm ppp .
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Commands associated with the
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.Dq default
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label are executed, followed by those associated with the destination
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label provided. When
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.Nm
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is started with no arguments, the
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.Dq default
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section is still executed. The load command can be used to manually
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load a section from the
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
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file:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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PPP ON awfulhak> load MyISP
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Once the connection is made, the
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.Sq ppp
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portion of the prompt will change to
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.Sq PPP :
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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# ppp MyISP
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...
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ppp ON awfulhak> dial
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Ppp ON awfulhak>
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PPp ON awfulhak>
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PPP ON awfulhak>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The Ppp prompt indicates that
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.Nm
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has entered the authentication phase. The PPp prompt indicates that
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.Nm
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has entered the network phase. The PPP prompt indicates that
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.Nm
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has successfully negotiated a network layer protocol and is in
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a usable state.
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.Pp
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If the
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
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file is available, its contents are executed
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when the
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.Em PPP
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connection is established. See the provided
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.Dq pmdemand
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example in
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample
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which runs a script in the background after the connection is established
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(refer to the
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.Dq shell
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and
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.Dq bg
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commands below for a description of possible substition strings). Similarly,
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when a connection is closed, the contents of the
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown
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file are executed. Both of these files have the same format as
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.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
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.Pp
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In previous versions of
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.Nm ppp ,
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it was necessary to re-add routes such as the default route in the
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.Pa ppp.linkup
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file.
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.Nm Ppp
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now supports
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.Sq sticky routes ,
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where all routes that contain the
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.Dv HISADDR
|
|
or
|
|
.Dv MYADDR
|
|
literals will automatically be updated when the values of
|
|
.Dv HISADDR
|
|
and/or
|
|
.Dv MYADDR
|
|
change.
|
|
.Sh BACKGROUND DIALING
|
|
If you want to establish a connection using
|
|
.Nm
|
|
non-interactively (such as from a
|
|
.Xr crontab 5
|
|
entry or an
|
|
.Xr at 1
|
|
job) you should use the
|
|
.Fl background
|
|
option.
|
|
When
|
|
.Fl background
|
|
is specified,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
attempts to establish the connection immediately. If multiple phone
|
|
numbers are specified, each phone number will be tried once. If the
|
|
attempt fails,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
exits immediately with a non-zero exit code.
|
|
If it succeeds, then
|
|
.Nm
|
|
becomes a daemon, and returns an exit status of zero to its caller.
|
|
The daemon exits automatically if the connection is dropped by the
|
|
remote system, or it receives a
|
|
.Dv TERM
|
|
signal.
|
|
.Sh DIAL ON DEMAND
|
|
Demand dialing is enabled with the
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
or
|
|
.Fl ddial
|
|
options. You must also specify the destination label in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
|
|
to use. It must contain the
|
|
.Dq set ifaddr
|
|
command to define the remote peers IP address. (refer to
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample )
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
# ppp -auto pmdemand
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
or
|
|
.Fl ddial
|
|
is specified,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
runs as a daemon but you can still configure or examine its
|
|
configuration by using the
|
|
.Dq set server
|
|
command in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ,
|
|
.Pq for example, Dq set server +3000 mypasswd
|
|
and connecting to the diagnostic port as follows:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
# pppctl 3000 (assuming tun0 - see the ``set server'' description)
|
|
Password:
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> show who
|
|
tcp (127.0.0.1:1028) *
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Dq show who
|
|
command lists users that are currently connected to
|
|
.Nm
|
|
itself. If the diagnostic socket is closed or changed to a different
|
|
socket, all connections are immediately dropped.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
In
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode, when an outgoing packet is detected,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will perform the dialing action (chat script) and try to connect
|
|
with the peer. In
|
|
.Fl ddial
|
|
mode, the dialing action is performed any time the line is found
|
|
to be down.
|
|
If the connect fails, the default behaviour is to wait 30 seconds
|
|
and then attempt to connect when another outgoing packet is detected.
|
|
This behaviour can be changed with
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set redial seconds|random[.nseconds|random] [dial_attempts]
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sq Seconds
|
|
is the number of seconds to wait before attempting
|
|
to connect again. If the argument is
|
|
.Sq random ,
|
|
the delay period is a random value between 0 and 30 seconds.
|
|
.Sq Nseconds
|
|
is the number of seconds to wait before attempting
|
|
to dial the next number in a list of numbers (see the
|
|
.Dq set phone
|
|
command). The default is 3 seconds. Again, if the argument is
|
|
.Sq random ,
|
|
the delay period is a random value between 0 and 30 seconds.
|
|
.Sq dial_attempts
|
|
is the number of times to try to connect for each outgoing packet
|
|
that is received. The previous value is unchanged if this parameter
|
|
is omitted. If a value of zero is specified for
|
|
.Sq dial_attempts ,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will keep trying until a connection is made.
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set redial 10.3 4
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
will attempt to connect 4 times for each outgoing packet that is
|
|
detected with a 3 second delay between each number and a 10 second
|
|
delay after all numbers have been tried. If multiple phone numbers
|
|
are specified, the total number of attempts is still 4 (it does not
|
|
attempt each number 4 times).
|
|
Modifying the dial delay is very useful when running
|
|
.Nm
|
|
in demand
|
|
dial mode on both ends of the link. If each end has the same timeout,
|
|
both ends wind up calling each other at the same time if the link
|
|
drops and both ends have packets queued.
|
|
At some locations, the serial link may not be reliable, and carrier
|
|
may be lost at inappropriate times. It is possible to have
|
|
.Nm
|
|
redial should carrier be unexpectedly lost during a session.
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set reconnect timeout ntries
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This command tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to re-establish the connection
|
|
.Ar ntries
|
|
times on loss of carrier with a pause of
|
|
.Ar timeout
|
|
seconds before each try. For example,
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set reconnect 3 5
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
that on an unexpected loss of carrier, it should wait
|
|
.Ar 3
|
|
seconds before attempting to reconnect. This may happen up to
|
|
.Ar 5
|
|
times before
|
|
.Nm
|
|
gives up. The default value of ntries is zero (no reconnect). Care
|
|
should be taken with this option. If the local timeout is slightly
|
|
longer than the remote timeout, the reconnect feature will always be
|
|
triggered (up to the given number of times) after the remote side
|
|
times out and hangs up.
|
|
NOTE: In this context, losing too many LQRs constitutes a loss of
|
|
carrier and will trigger a reconnect.
|
|
If the
|
|
.Fl background
|
|
flag is specified, all phone numbers are dialed at most once until
|
|
a connection is made. The next number redial period specified with
|
|
the
|
|
.Dq set redial
|
|
command is honoured, as is the reconnect tries value. If your redial
|
|
value is less than the number of phone numbers specified, not all
|
|
the specified numbers will be tried.
|
|
To terminate the program, type
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> close
|
|
ppp ON awfulhak> quit all
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A simple
|
|
.Dq quit
|
|
command will terminate the
|
|
.Xr pppctl 8
|
|
or
|
|
.Xr telnet 1
|
|
connection but not the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
program itself.
|
|
You must use
|
|
.Dq quit all
|
|
to terminate
|
|
.Nm
|
|
as well.
|
|
.Sh RECEIVING INCOMING PPP CONNECTIONS (Method 1)
|
|
To handle an incoming
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
connection request, follow these steps:
|
|
.Bl -enum
|
|
.It
|
|
Make sure the modem and (optionally)
|
|
.Pa /etc/rc.serial
|
|
is configured correctly.
|
|
.Bl -bullet -compact
|
|
.It
|
|
Use Hardware Handshake (CTS/RTS) for flow control.
|
|
.It
|
|
Modem should be set to NO echo back (ATE0) and NO results string (ATQ1).
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It
|
|
Edit
|
|
.Pa /etc/ttys
|
|
to enable a
|
|
.Xr getty 8
|
|
on the port where the modem is attached.
|
|
For example:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" dialup on secure
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Don't forget to send a
|
|
.Dv HUP
|
|
signal to the
|
|
.Xr init 8
|
|
process to start the
|
|
.Xr getty 8 :
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl # kill -HUP 1
|
|
.It
|
|
Create a
|
|
.Pa /usr/local/bin/ppplogin
|
|
file with the following contents:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
#! /bin/sh
|
|
exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct incoming
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Direct mode
|
|
.Pq Fl direct
|
|
lets
|
|
.Nm
|
|
work with stdin and stdout. You can also use
|
|
.Xr pppctl 8
|
|
to connect to a configured diagnostic port, in the same manner as with
|
|
client-side
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Here, the
|
|
.Ar incoming
|
|
section must be set up in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Make sure that the
|
|
.Ar incoming
|
|
section contains the
|
|
.Dq allow users
|
|
command as appropriate.
|
|
.It
|
|
Prepare an account for the incoming user.
|
|
.Bd -literal
|
|
ppp:xxxx:66:66:PPP Login User:/home/ppp:/usr/local/bin/ppplogin
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Refer to the manual entries for
|
|
.Xr adduser 8
|
|
and
|
|
.Xr vipw 8
|
|
for details.
|
|
.It
|
|
Support for IPCP Domain Name Server and NetBIOS Name Server negotiation
|
|
can be enabled using the
|
|
.Dq accept dns
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq set nbns
|
|
commands. Refer to their descriptions below.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sh RECEIVING INCOMING PPP CONNECTIONS (Method 2)
|
|
This method differs in that we use
|
|
.Nm ppp
|
|
to authenticate the connection rather than
|
|
.Xr login 1 :
|
|
.Bl -enum
|
|
.It
|
|
Configure your default section in
|
|
.Pa /etc/gettytab
|
|
with automatic ppp recognition by specifying the
|
|
.Dq pp
|
|
capability:
|
|
.Bd -literal
|
|
default:\\
|
|
:pp=/usr/local/bin/ppplogin:\\
|
|
.....
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.It
|
|
Configure your serial device(s), enable a
|
|
.Xr getty 8
|
|
and create
|
|
.Pa /usr/local/bin/ppplogin
|
|
as in the first three steps for method 1 above.
|
|
.It
|
|
Add either
|
|
.Dq enable chap
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq enable pap
|
|
.Pq or both
|
|
to
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
|
|
under the
|
|
.Sq incoming
|
|
label (or whatever label
|
|
.Pa ppplogin
|
|
uses).
|
|
.It
|
|
Create an entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
for each incoming user:
|
|
.Bd -literal
|
|
Pfred<TAB>xxxx
|
|
Pgeorge<TAB>yyyy
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Now, as soon as
|
|
.Xr getty 8
|
|
detects a ppp connection (by recognising the HDLC frame headers), it runs
|
|
.Dq /usr/local/bin/ppplogin .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is
|
|
.Em VITAL
|
|
that either PAP or CHAP are enabled as above. If they are not, you are
|
|
allowing anybody to establish ppp session with your machine
|
|
.Em without
|
|
a password, opening yourself up to all sorts of potential attacks.
|
|
.Sh AUTHENTICATING INCOMING CONNECTIONS
|
|
Normally, the receiver of a connection requires that the peer
|
|
authenticates itself. This may be done using
|
|
.Xr login 1 ,
|
|
but alternatively, you can use PAP or CHAP. CHAP is the more secure
|
|
of the two, but some clients may not support it. Once you decide which
|
|
you wish to use, add the command
|
|
.Sq enable chap
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq enable pap
|
|
to the relevant section of
|
|
.Pa ppp.conf .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
You must then configure the
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
file. This file contains one line per possible client, each line
|
|
containing up to four fields:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
name key [hisaddr [label]]
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar key
|
|
specify the client as expected. If
|
|
.Ar key
|
|
is
|
|
.Dq \&*
|
|
and PAP is being used,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will look up the password database
|
|
.Pq Xr passwd 5
|
|
when authenticating. If the client does not offer a suitable
|
|
response based on any
|
|
.Ar name No / Ar key
|
|
combination in
|
|
.Pa ppp.secret ,
|
|
authentication fails.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If authentication is successful,
|
|
.Ar hisaddr
|
|
.Pq if specified
|
|
is used when negotiating IP numbers. See the
|
|
.Dq set ifaddr
|
|
command for details.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If authentication is successful and
|
|
.Ar label
|
|
is specified, the current system label is changed to match the given
|
|
.Ar label .
|
|
This will change the subsequent parsing of the
|
|
.Pa ppp.linkup
|
|
and
|
|
.Pa ppp.linkdown
|
|
files.
|
|
.Sh PPP OVER TCP (a.k.a Tunnelling)
|
|
Instead of running
|
|
.Nm
|
|
over a serial link, it is possible to
|
|
use a TCP connection instead by specifying a host and port as the
|
|
device:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl set device ui-gate:6669
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Instead of opening a serial device,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will open a TCP connection to the given machine on the given
|
|
socket. It should be noted however that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
doesn't use the telnet protocol and will be unable to negotiate
|
|
with a telnet server. You should set up a port for receiving this
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
connection on the receiving machine (ui-gate). This is
|
|
done by first updating
|
|
.Pa /etc/services
|
|
to name the service:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl ppp-in 6669/tcp # Incoming PPP connections over TCP
|
|
.Pp
|
|
and updating
|
|
.Pa /etc/inetd.conf
|
|
to tell
|
|
.Xr inetd 8
|
|
how to deal with incoming connections on that port:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl ppp-in stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/ppp ppp -direct ppp-in
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Don't forget to send a
|
|
.Dv HUP
|
|
signal to
|
|
.Xr inetd 8
|
|
after you've updated
|
|
.Pa /etc/inetd.conf .
|
|
Here, we use a label named
|
|
.Dq ppp-in .
|
|
The entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
|
|
on ui-gate (the receiver) should contain the following:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
ppp-in:
|
|
set timeout 0
|
|
set ifaddr 10.0.4.1 10.0.4.2
|
|
add 10.0.1.0/24 10.0.4.2
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
You may also want to enable PAP or CHAP for security. To enable PAP, add
|
|
the following line:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
enable PAP
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
You'll also need to create the following entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret :
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
MyAuthName MyAuthPasswd
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar MyAuthPasswd
|
|
is a
|
|
.Pq Dq * ,
|
|
the password is looked up in the
|
|
.Xr passwd 5
|
|
database.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
|
|
on awfulhak (the initiator) should contain the following:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
ui-gate:
|
|
set escape 0xff
|
|
set device ui-gate:ppp-in
|
|
set dial
|
|
set timeout 30
|
|
set log Phase Chat Connect hdlc LCP IPCP CCP tun
|
|
set ifaddr 10.0.4.2 10.0.4.1
|
|
add 10.0.2.0/24 10.0.4.1
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Again, if you're enabling PAP, you'll also need:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set authname MyAuthName
|
|
set authkey MyAuthKey
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
We're assigning the address of 10.0.4.1 to ui-gate, and the address
|
|
10.0.4.2 to awfulhak.
|
|
To open the connection, just type
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl awfulhak # ppp -background ui-gate
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The result will be an additional "route" on awfulhak to the
|
|
10.0.2.0/24 network via the TCP connection, and an additional
|
|
"route" on ui-gate to the 10.0.1.0/24 network.
|
|
The networks are effectively bridged - the underlying TCP
|
|
connection may be across a public network (such as the
|
|
Internet), and the
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
traffic is conceptually encapsulated
|
|
(although not packet by packet) inside the TCP stream between
|
|
the two gateways.
|
|
The major disadvantage of this mechanism is that there are two
|
|
"guaranteed delivery" mechanisms in place - the underlying TCP
|
|
stream and whatever protocol is used over the
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
link - probably TCP again. If packets are lost, both levels will
|
|
get in each others way trying to negotiate sending of the missing
|
|
packet.
|
|
.Sh PACKET ALIASING
|
|
The
|
|
.Fl alias
|
|
command line option enables packet aliasing. This allows the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
host to act as a masquerading gateway for other computers over
|
|
a local area network. Outgoing IP packets are aliased so that
|
|
they appear to come from the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
host, and incoming packets are de-aliased so that they are routed
|
|
to the correct machine on the local area network.
|
|
Packet aliasing allows computers on private, unregistered
|
|
subnets to have Internet access, although they are invisible
|
|
from the outside world.
|
|
In general, correct
|
|
.Nm
|
|
operation should first be verified with packet aliasing disabled.
|
|
Then, the
|
|
.Fl alias
|
|
option should be switched on, and network applications (web browser,
|
|
.Xr telnet 1 ,
|
|
.Xr ftp 1 ,
|
|
.Xr ping 8 ,
|
|
.Xr traceroute 8 )
|
|
should be checked on the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
host. Finally, the same or similar applications should be checked on other
|
|
computers in the LAN.
|
|
If network applications work correctly on the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
host, but not on other machines in the LAN, then the masquerading
|
|
software is working properly, but the host is either not forwarding
|
|
or possibly receiving IP packets. Check that IP forwarding is enabled in
|
|
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
|
|
and that other machines have designated the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
host as the gateway for the LAN.
|
|
.Sh PACKET FILTERING
|
|
This implementation supports packet filtering. There are four kinds of
|
|
filters; the
|
|
.Em in
|
|
filter, the
|
|
.Em out
|
|
filter, the
|
|
.Em dial
|
|
filter and the
|
|
.Em alive
|
|
filter. Here are the basics:
|
|
.Bl -bullet
|
|
.It
|
|
A filter definition has the following syntax:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
set filter
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
.Ar rule-no
|
|
.Ar action
|
|
.Op Ar src_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width
|
|
.Op Ar dst_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width
|
|
[
|
|
.Ar proto
|
|
.Op src Op Ar cmp No Ar port
|
|
.Op dst Op Ar cmp No Ar port
|
|
.Op estab
|
|
.Op syn
|
|
.Op finrst
|
|
]
|
|
.Bl -enum
|
|
.It
|
|
.Ar Name
|
|
should be one of
|
|
.Sq in ,
|
|
.Sq out ,
|
|
.Sq dial
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq alive .
|
|
.It
|
|
.Ar Rule-no
|
|
is a numeric value between
|
|
.Sq 0
|
|
and
|
|
.Sq 19
|
|
specifying the rule number. Rules are specified in numeric order according to
|
|
.Ar rule-no ,
|
|
but only if rule
|
|
.Sq 0
|
|
is defined.
|
|
.It
|
|
.Ar Action
|
|
is either
|
|
.Sq permit
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq deny .
|
|
If a given packet
|
|
matches the rule, the associated action is taken immediately.
|
|
.It
|
|
.Op Ar src_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width
|
|
and
|
|
.Op Ar dst_addr Ns Op / Ns Ar width
|
|
are the source and destination IP number specifications. If
|
|
.Op / Ns Ar width
|
|
is specified, it gives the number of relevant netmask bits,
|
|
allowing the specification of an address range.
|
|
.It
|
|
.Ar Proto
|
|
must be one of
|
|
.Sq icmp ,
|
|
.Sq udp
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq tcp .
|
|
.It
|
|
.Ar Cmp
|
|
is one of
|
|
.Sq \< ,
|
|
.Sq \&eq
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq \> ,
|
|
meaning less-than, equal and greater-than respectively.
|
|
.Ar Port
|
|
can be specified as a numeric port or by service name from
|
|
.Pa /etc/services .
|
|
.It
|
|
The
|
|
.Sq estab ,
|
|
.Sq syn ,
|
|
and
|
|
.Sq finrst
|
|
flags are only allowed when
|
|
.Ar proto
|
|
is set to
|
|
.Sq tcp ,
|
|
and represent the TH_ACK, TH_SYN and TH_FIN or TH_RST TCP flags respectively.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It
|
|
Each filter can hold up to 20 rules, starting from rule 0.
|
|
The entire rule set is not effective until rule 0 is defined,
|
|
ie. the default is to allow everything through.
|
|
.It
|
|
If no rule is matched to a packet, that packet will be discarded
|
|
(blocked).
|
|
.It
|
|
Use
|
|
.Dq set filter Ar name No -1
|
|
to flush all rules.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
See
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.example .
|
|
.Sh SETTING THE IDLE TIMER
|
|
To check/set the idle timer, use the
|
|
.Dq show bundle
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq set timeout
|
|
commands:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
ppp ON awfulhak> set timeout 600
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The timeout period is measured in seconds, the default value for which
|
|
is 180 seconds
|
|
.Pq or 3 min .
|
|
To disable the idle timer function, use the command
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
ppp ON awfulhak> set timeout 0
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
In
|
|
.Fl ddial
|
|
and
|
|
.Fl direct
|
|
modes, the idle timeout is ignored. In
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode, when the idle timeout causes the
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
session to be
|
|
closed, the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
program itself remains running. Another trigger packet will cause it to
|
|
attempt to re-establish the link.
|
|
.Sh PREDICTOR-1 and DEFLATE COMPRESSION
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
supports both Predictor type 1 and deflate compression.
|
|
By default,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will attempt to use (or be willing to accept) both compression protocols
|
|
when the peer agrees
|
|
.Pq or requests them .
|
|
The deflate protocol is preferred by
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
Refer to the
|
|
.Dq disable
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq deny
|
|
commands if you wish to disable this functionality.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is possible to use a different compression algorithm in each direction
|
|
by using only one of
|
|
.Dq disable deflate
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq deny deflate
|
|
.Pq assuming that the peer supports both algorithms .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
By default, when negotiating DEFLATE,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will use a window size of 15. Refer to the
|
|
.Dq set deflate
|
|
command if you wish to change this behaviour.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A special algorithm called DEFLATE24 is also available, and is disabled
|
|
and denied by default. This is exactly the same as DEFLATE except that
|
|
it uses CCP ID 24 to negotiate. This allows
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to successfully negotiate DEFLATE with
|
|
.Nm pppd
|
|
version 2.3.*.
|
|
.Sh CONTROLLING IP ADDRESS
|
|
.Nm
|
|
uses IPCP to negotiate IP addresses. Each side of the connection
|
|
specifies the IP address that it's willing to use, and if the requested
|
|
IP address is acceptable then
|
|
.Nm
|
|
returns ACK to the requester. Otherwise,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
returns NAK to suggest that the peer use a different IP address. When
|
|
both sides of the connection agree to accept the received request (and
|
|
send ACK), IPCP is set to the open state and a network level connection
|
|
is established.
|
|
To control this IPCP behaviour, this implementation has the
|
|
.Dq set ifaddr
|
|
command for defining the local and remote IP address:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set ifaddr [src_addr [dst_addr [netmask [trigger_addr]]]]
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
where,
|
|
.Sq src_addr
|
|
is the IP address that the local side is willing to use,
|
|
.Sq dst_addr
|
|
is the IP address which the remote side should use and
|
|
.Sq netmask
|
|
is the netmask that should be used.
|
|
.Sq Src_addr
|
|
defaults to the current
|
|
.Xr hostname 1 ,
|
|
.Sq dst_addr
|
|
defaults to 0.0.0.0, and
|
|
.Sq netmask
|
|
defaults to whatever mask is appropriate for
|
|
.Sq src_addr .
|
|
It is only possible to make
|
|
.Sq netmask
|
|
smaller than the default. The usual value is 255.255.255.255, as
|
|
most kernels ignore the netmask of a POINTOPOINT interface.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Some incorrect
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
implementations require that the peer negotiates a specific IP
|
|
address instead of
|
|
.Sq src_addr .
|
|
If this is the case,
|
|
.Sq trigger_addr
|
|
may be used to specify this IP number. This will not affect the
|
|
routing table unless the other side agrees with this proposed number.
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set ifaddr 192.244.177.38 192.244.177.2 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The above specification means:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -bullet -compact
|
|
.It
|
|
I will first suggest that my IP address should be 0.0.0.0, but I
|
|
will only accept an address of 192.244.177.38.
|
|
.It
|
|
I strongly insist that the peer uses 192.244.177.2 as his own
|
|
address and won't permit the use of any IP address but 192.244.177.2.
|
|
When the peer requests another IP address, I will always suggest that
|
|
it uses 192.244.177.2.
|
|
.It
|
|
The routing table entry will have a netmask of 0xffffffff.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This is all fine when each side has a pre-determined IP address, however
|
|
it is often the case that one side is acting as a server which controls
|
|
all IP addresses and the other side should obey the direction from it.
|
|
In order to allow more flexible behaviour, `ifaddr' variable allows the
|
|
user to specify IP address more loosely:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl set ifaddr 192.244.177.38/24 192.244.177.2/20
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A number followed by a slash (/) represent the number of bits significant in
|
|
the IP address. The above example signifies that:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -bullet -compact
|
|
.It
|
|
I'd like to use 192.244.177.38 as my address if it is possible, but I'll
|
|
also accept any IP address between 192.244.177.0 and 192.244.177.255.
|
|
.It
|
|
I'd like to make him use 192.244.177.2 as his own address, but I'll also
|
|
permit him to use any IP address between 192.244.176.0 and
|
|
192.244.191.255.
|
|
.It
|
|
As you may have already noticed, 192.244.177.2 is equivalent to saying
|
|
192.244.177.2/32.
|
|
.It
|
|
As an exception, 0 is equivalent to 0.0.0.0/0, meaning that I have no
|
|
preferred IP address and will obey the remote peers selection. When
|
|
using zero, no routing table entries will be made until a connection
|
|
is established.
|
|
.It
|
|
192.244.177.2/0 means that I'll accept/permit any IP address but I'll
|
|
try to insist that 192.244.177.2 be used first.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sh CONNECTING WITH YOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER
|
|
The following steps should be taken when connecting to your ISP:
|
|
.Bl -enum
|
|
.It
|
|
Describe your providers phone number(s) in the dial script using the
|
|
.Dq set phone
|
|
command. This command allows you to set multiple phone numbers for
|
|
dialing and redialing separated by either a pipe (|) or a colon (:)
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set phone "111[|222]...[:333[|444]...]...
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Numbers after the first in a pipe-separated list are only used if the
|
|
previous number was used in a failed dial or login script. Numbers
|
|
separated by a colon are used sequentially, irrespective of what happened
|
|
as a result of using the previous number. For example:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set phone "1234567|2345678:3456789|4567890"
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Here, the 1234567 number is attempted. If the dial or login script fails,
|
|
the 2345678 number is used next time, but *only* if the dial or login script
|
|
fails. On the dial after this, the 3456789 number is used. The 4567890
|
|
number is only used if the dial or login script using the 3456789 fails. If
|
|
the login script of the 2345678 number fails, the next number is still the
|
|
3456789 number. As many pipes and colons can be used as are necessary
|
|
(although a given site would usually prefer to use either the pipe or the
|
|
colon, but not both). The next number redial timeout is used between all
|
|
numbers. When the end of the list is reached, the normal redial period is
|
|
used before starting at the beginning again.
|
|
The selected phone number is substituted for the \\\\T string in the
|
|
.Dq set dial
|
|
command (see below).
|
|
.It
|
|
Set up your redial requirements using
|
|
.Dq set redial .
|
|
For example, if you have a bad telephone line or your provider is
|
|
usually engaged (not so common these days), you may want to specify
|
|
the following:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set redial 10 4
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This says that up to 4 phone calls should be attempted with a pause of 10
|
|
seconds before dialing the first number again.
|
|
.It
|
|
Describe your login procedure using the
|
|
.Dq set dial
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq set login
|
|
commands. The
|
|
.Dq set dial
|
|
command is used to talk to your modem and establish a link with your
|
|
ISP, for example:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 4 \\"\\" \e
|
|
ATZ OK-ATZ-OK ATDT\\\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT"
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This modem "chat" string means:
|
|
.Bl -bullet
|
|
.It
|
|
Abort if the string "BUSY" or "NO CARRIER" are received.
|
|
.It
|
|
Set the timeout to 4 seconds.
|
|
.It
|
|
Expect nothing.
|
|
.It
|
|
Send ATZ.
|
|
.It
|
|
Expect OK. If that's not received within the 4 second timeout, send ATZ
|
|
and expect OK.
|
|
.It
|
|
Send ATDTxxxxxxx where xxxxxxx is the next number in the phone list from
|
|
above.
|
|
.It
|
|
Set the timeout to 60.
|
|
.It
|
|
Wait for the CONNECT string.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Once the connection is established, the login script is executed. This
|
|
script is written in the same style as the dial script, but care should
|
|
be taken to avoid having your password logged:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set authkey MySecret
|
|
set login "TIMEOUT 15 login:-\\\\r-login: awfulhak \e
|
|
word: \\\\P ocol: PPP HELLO"
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This login "chat" string means:
|
|
.Bl -bullet
|
|
.It
|
|
Set the timeout to 15 seconds.
|
|
.It
|
|
Expect "login:". If it's not received, send a carriage return and expect
|
|
"login:" again.
|
|
.It
|
|
Send "awfulhak"
|
|
.It
|
|
Expect "word:" (the tail end of a "Password:" prompt).
|
|
.It
|
|
Send whatever our current
|
|
.Ar authkey
|
|
value is set to.
|
|
.It
|
|
Expect "ocol:" (the tail end of a "Protocol:" prompt).
|
|
.It
|
|
Send "PPP".
|
|
.It
|
|
Expect "HELLO".
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Dq set authkey
|
|
command is logged specially (when using
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
logging) so that the actual password is not compromised
|
|
(it is logged as
|
|
.Sq ******** Ns
|
|
), and the '\\P' is logged when
|
|
.Ar chat
|
|
logging is active rather than the actual password.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Login scripts vary greatly between ISPs. If you're setting one up
|
|
for the first time,
|
|
.Em ENABLE CHAT LOGGING
|
|
so that you can see if your script is behaving as you expect.
|
|
.It
|
|
Use
|
|
.Dq set line
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq set speed
|
|
to specify your serial line and speed, for example:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set line /dev/cuaa0
|
|
set speed 115200
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Cuaa0 is the first serial port on FreeBSD. If you're running
|
|
.Nm
|
|
on OpenBSD, cua00 is the first. A speed of 115200 should be specified
|
|
if you have a modem capable of bit rates of 28800 or more. In general,
|
|
the serial speed should be about four times the modem speed.
|
|
.It
|
|
Use the
|
|
.Dq set ifaddr
|
|
command to define the IP address.
|
|
.Bl -bullet
|
|
.It
|
|
If you know what IP address your provider uses, then use it as the remote
|
|
address (dst_addr), otherwise choose something like 10.0.0.2/0 (see below).
|
|
.It
|
|
If your provider has assigned a particular IP address to you, then use
|
|
it as your address (src_addr).
|
|
.It
|
|
If your provider assigns your address dynamically, choose a suitably
|
|
unobtrusive and unspecific IP number as your address. 10.0.0.1/0 would
|
|
be appropriate. The bit after the / specifies how many bits of the
|
|
address you consider to be important, so if you wanted to insist on
|
|
something in the class C network 1.2.3.0, you could specify 1.2.3.1/24.
|
|
.It
|
|
If you find that your ISP accepts the first IP number that you suggest,
|
|
specify third and forth arguments of
|
|
.Dq 0.0.0.0 .
|
|
This will force your ISP to assign a number. (The third argument will
|
|
be ignored as it is less restrictive than the default mask for your
|
|
.Sq src_addr .
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
An example for a connection where you don't know your IP number or your
|
|
ISPs IP number would be:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It
|
|
In most cases, your ISP will also be your default router. If this is
|
|
the case, add the line
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
add default HISADDR
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
to
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to add a default route to whatever the peer address is
|
|
.Pq 10.0.0.2 in this example .
|
|
This route is
|
|
.Sq sticky ,
|
|
meaning that should the value of
|
|
.Dv HISADDR
|
|
change, the route will be updated accordingly.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Previous versions of
|
|
.Nm
|
|
required a similar entry in the
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
|
|
file. Since the advent of
|
|
.Sq sticky routes ,
|
|
his is no longer required.
|
|
.It
|
|
If your provider requests that you use PAP/CHAP authentication methods, add
|
|
the next lines to your
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
|
|
file:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set authname MyName
|
|
set authkey MyPassword
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Both are accepted by default, so
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will provide whatever your ISP requires.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It should be noted that a login script is rarely (if ever) required
|
|
when PAP or CHAP are in use.
|
|
.It
|
|
Ask your ISP to authenticate your nameserver address(es) with the line
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
enable dns
|
|
.Ed
|
|
Do
|
|
.Em NOT
|
|
do this if you are running an local DNS, as
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will simply circumvent its use by entering some nameserver lines in
|
|
.Pa /etc/resolv.conf .
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Please refer to
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.sample
|
|
and
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample
|
|
for some real examples. The pmdemand label should be appropriate for most
|
|
ISPs.
|
|
.Sh LOGGING FACILITY
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
is able to generate the following log info either via
|
|
.Xr syslog 3
|
|
or directly to the screen:
|
|
.Bl -column SMMMMMM -offset indent
|
|
.It Li Async Dump async level packet in hex
|
|
.It Li CBCP Generate CBCP (CallBack Control Protocol) logs
|
|
.It Li CCP Generate a CCP packet trace
|
|
.It Li Chat Generate Chat script trace log
|
|
.It Li Command Log commands executed
|
|
.It Li Connect Generate complete Chat log
|
|
.It Li Debug Log debug information
|
|
.It Li HDLC Dump HDLC packet in hex
|
|
.It Li ID0 Log all function calls specifically made as user id 0.
|
|
.It Li IPCP Generate an IPCP packet trace
|
|
.It Li LCP Generate an LCP packet trace
|
|
.It Li LQM Generate LQR report
|
|
.It Li Phase Phase transition log output
|
|
.It Li TCP/IP Dump all TCP/IP packets
|
|
.It Li Timer Log timer manipulation
|
|
.It Li TUN Include the tun device on each log line
|
|
.It Li Warning Output to the terminal device. If there is currently no
|
|
terminal, output is sent to the log file using LOG_WARNING.
|
|
.It Li Error Output to both the terminal device and the log file using
|
|
LOG_ERROR.
|
|
.It Li Alert Output to the log file using LOG_ALERT
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Dq set log
|
|
command allows you to set the logging output level. Multiple levels
|
|
can be specified on a single command line. The default is equivalent to
|
|
.Dq set log Phase .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is also possible to log directly to the screen. The syntax is
|
|
the same except that the word
|
|
.Dq local
|
|
should immediately follow
|
|
.Dq set log .
|
|
The default is
|
|
.Dq set log local
|
|
(ie. only the un-maskable warning, error and alert output).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If The first argument to
|
|
.Dq set log Op local
|
|
begins with a '+' or a '-' character, the current log levels are
|
|
not cleared, for example:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> set log phase
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> show log
|
|
Log: Phase Warning Error Alert
|
|
Local: Warning Error Alert
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> set log +tcp/ip -warning
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> set log local +command
|
|
PPP ON awfulhak> show log
|
|
Log: Phase TCP/IP Warning Error Alert
|
|
Local: Command Warning Error Alert
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Log messages of level Warning, Error and Alert are not controllable
|
|
using
|
|
.Dq set log Op local .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The
|
|
.Ar Warning
|
|
level is special in that it will not be logged if it can be displayed
|
|
locally.
|
|
.Sh SIGNAL HANDLING
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
deals with the following signals:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It INT
|
|
Receipt of this signal causes the termination of the current connection
|
|
(if any). This will cause
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to exit unless it is in
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
or
|
|
.Fl ddial
|
|
mode.
|
|
.It HUP, TERM & QUIT
|
|
These signals tell
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to exit.
|
|
.It USR2
|
|
This signal, tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to close any existing server socket, dropping all existing diagnostic
|
|
connections.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sh MULTI-LINK PPP
|
|
If you wish to use more than one physical link to connect to a
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
peer, that peer must also understand the
|
|
.Em MULTI-LINK PPP
|
|
protocol. Refer to RFC 1990 for specification details.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The peer is identified using a combination of his
|
|
.Dq endpoint discriminator
|
|
and his
|
|
.Dq authentication id .
|
|
Either or both of these may be specified. It is recommended that
|
|
at least one is specified, otherwise there is no way of ensuring that
|
|
all links are actually connected to the same peer program, and some
|
|
confusing lock-ups may result. Locally, these identification variables
|
|
are specified using the
|
|
.Dq set enddisc
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq set authname
|
|
commands. The
|
|
.Sq authname
|
|
.Pq and Sq authkey
|
|
must be agreed in advance with the peer.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Multi-link capabilities are enabled using the
|
|
.Dq set mrru
|
|
command (set maximum reconstructed receive unit). Once multi-link
|
|
is enabled,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will attempt to negotiate a multi-link connection with the peer.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
By default, only one
|
|
.Sq link
|
|
is available
|
|
.Pq called Sq deflink .
|
|
To create more links, the
|
|
.Dq clone
|
|
command is used. This command will clone existing links, where all
|
|
characteristics are the same except:
|
|
.Bl -enum
|
|
.It
|
|
The new link has its own name as specified on the
|
|
.Dq clone
|
|
command line.
|
|
.It
|
|
The new link is an
|
|
.Sq interactive
|
|
link. It's mode may subsequently be changed using the
|
|
.Dq set mode
|
|
command.
|
|
.It
|
|
The new link is in a
|
|
.Sq closed
|
|
state.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A summary of all available links can be seen using the
|
|
.Dq show links
|
|
command.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Once a new link has been created, command usage varies. All link
|
|
specific commands must be prefixed with the
|
|
.Dq link Ar name
|
|
command, specifying on which link the command is to be applied. When
|
|
only a single link is available,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is smart enough not to require the
|
|
.Dq link Ar name
|
|
prefix.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Some commands can still be used without specifying a link - resulting
|
|
in an operation at the
|
|
.Sq bundle
|
|
level. For example, once two or more links are available, the command
|
|
.Dq show ccp
|
|
will show CCP configuration and statistics at the multi-link level, and
|
|
.Dq link deflink show ccp
|
|
will show the same information at the
|
|
.Dq deflink
|
|
link level.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Armed with this information, the following configuration might be used:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
mp:
|
|
set timeout 0
|
|
set log phase chat
|
|
set device /dev/cuaa0 /dev/cuaa1 /dev/cuaa2
|
|
set phone "123456789"
|
|
set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \\"\\" ATZ \e
|
|
OK-AT-OK \\\\dATDT\\\\T TIMEOUT 45 CONNECT"
|
|
set login
|
|
set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0
|
|
set authname ppp
|
|
set authkey ppppassword
|
|
|
|
set mrru 1500
|
|
clone 1,2,3
|
|
link deflink remove
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note how all cloning is done at the end of the configuration. Usually,
|
|
the link will be configured first, then cloned. If you wish all links
|
|
to be up all the time, you can add the following line to the end of your
|
|
configuration.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
link 1,2,3 set mode ddial
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If you want the links to dial on demand, this command could be used:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
link * set mode auto
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Links may be tied to specific names by removing the
|
|
.Dq set device
|
|
line above, and specifying the following after the
|
|
.Dq clone
|
|
command:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
link 1 set device /dev/cuaa0
|
|
link 2 set device /dev/cuaa1
|
|
link 3 set device /dev/cuaa2
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Use the
|
|
.Dq help
|
|
command to see which commands require context (using the
|
|
.Dq link
|
|
command), which have optional
|
|
context and which should not have any context.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When
|
|
.Nm
|
|
has negotiated
|
|
.Em MULTI-LINK
|
|
mode with the peer, it creates a local domain socket in the
|
|
.Pa /var/run
|
|
directory. This socket is used to pass link information (including
|
|
the actual link file descriptor) between different
|
|
.Nm
|
|
invocations. This facilitates
|
|
.Nm ppp Ns No s
|
|
ability to be run from a
|
|
.Xr getty 8
|
|
or directly from
|
|
.Pa /etc/gettydefs
|
|
(using the
|
|
.Sq pp=
|
|
capability), without needing to have initial control of the serial
|
|
line. Once
|
|
.Nm
|
|
negotiates multi-link mode, it will pass its open link to any
|
|
already running process. If there is no already running process,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will act as the master, creating the socket and listening for new
|
|
connections.
|
|
.Sh PPP COMMAND LIST
|
|
This section lists the available commands and their effect. They are
|
|
usable either from an interactive
|
|
.Nm
|
|
session, from a configuration file or from a
|
|
.Xr pppctl 8
|
|
or
|
|
.Xr telnet 1
|
|
session.
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It accept|deny|enable|disable Ar option....
|
|
These directives tell
|
|
.Nm
|
|
how to negotiate the initial connection with the peer. Each
|
|
.Dq option
|
|
has a default of either accept or deny and enable or disable.
|
|
.Dq Accept
|
|
means that the option will be ACK'd if the peer asks for it.
|
|
.Dq Deny
|
|
means that the option will be NAK'd if the peer asks for it.
|
|
.Dq Enable
|
|
means that the option will be requested by us.
|
|
.Dq Disable
|
|
means that the option will not be requested by us.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dq Option
|
|
may be one of the following:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It acfcomp
|
|
Default: Enabled and Accepted. ACFComp stands for Address and Control
|
|
Field Compression. Non LCP packets usually have very similar address
|
|
and control fields - making them easily compressible.
|
|
.It chap
|
|
Default: Disabled and Accepted. CHAP stands for Challenge Handshake
|
|
Authentication Protocol. Only one of CHAP and PAP (below) may be
|
|
negotiated. With CHAP, the authenticator sends a "challenge" message
|
|
to its peer. The peer uses a one-way hash function to encrypt the
|
|
challenge and sends the result back. The authenticator does the same,
|
|
and compares the results. The advantage of this mechanism is that no
|
|
passwords are sent across the connection.
|
|
A challenge is made when the connection is first made. Subsequent
|
|
challenges may occur. If you want to have your peer authenticate
|
|
itself, you must
|
|
.Dq enable chap .
|
|
in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ,
|
|
and have an entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
for the peer.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When using CHAP as the client, you need only specify
|
|
.Dq AuthName
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq AuthKey
|
|
in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
|
|
CHAP is accepted by default.
|
|
Some
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
implementations use "MS-CHAP" rather than MD5 when encrypting the
|
|
challenge. MS-CHAP is a combination of MD4 and DES. If
|
|
.Nm
|
|
was built on a machine with DES libraries available, it will respond
|
|
to MS-CHAP authentication requests, but will never request them.
|
|
.It deflate
|
|
Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option decides if deflate
|
|
compression will be used by the Compression Control Protocol (CCP).
|
|
This is the same algorithm as used by the
|
|
.Xr gzip 1
|
|
program.
|
|
Note: There is a problem negotiating
|
|
.Ar deflate
|
|
capabilities with
|
|
.Xr pppd 8
|
|
- a
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
implementation available under many operating systems.
|
|
.Nm Pppd
|
|
(version 2.3.1) incorrectly attempts to negotiate
|
|
.Ar deflate
|
|
compression using type
|
|
.Em 24
|
|
as the CCP configuration type rather than type
|
|
.Em 26
|
|
as specified in
|
|
.Pa rfc1979 .
|
|
Type
|
|
.Ar 24
|
|
is actually specified as
|
|
.Dq PPP Magna-link Variable Resource Compression
|
|
in
|
|
.Pa rfc1975 Ns No !
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
is capable of negotiating with
|
|
.Nm pppd ,
|
|
but only if
|
|
.Dq deflate24
|
|
is
|
|
.Ar enable Ns No d
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar accept Ns No ed .
|
|
.It deflate24
|
|
Default: Disabled and Denied. This is a variance of the
|
|
.Ar deflate
|
|
option, allowing negotiation with the
|
|
.Xr pppd 8
|
|
program. Refer to the
|
|
.Ar deflate
|
|
section above for details. It is disabled by default as it violates
|
|
.Pa rfc1975 .
|
|
.It dns
|
|
Default: Disabled and Denied. This option allows DNS negotiation.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Dq enable Ns No d,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will request that the peer confirms the entries in
|
|
.Pa /etc/resolv.conf .
|
|
If the peer NAKs our request (suggesting new IP numbers),
|
|
.Pa /etc/resolv.conf
|
|
is updated and another request is sent to confirm the new entries.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Dq accept Ns No ed,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will answer any DNS queries requested by the peer rather than rejecting
|
|
them. The answer is taken from
|
|
.Pa /etc/resolv.conf
|
|
unless the
|
|
.Dq set dns
|
|
command is used as an override.
|
|
.It lqr
|
|
Default: Disabled and Accepted. This option decides if Link Quality
|
|
Requests will be sent or accepted. LQR is a protocol that allows
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to determine that the link is down without relying on the modems
|
|
carrier detect. When LQR is enabled,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
sends the
|
|
.Em QUALPROTO
|
|
option (see
|
|
.Dq set lqrperiod
|
|
below) as part of the LCP request. If the peer agrees, both sides will
|
|
exchange LQR packets at the agreed frequency, allowing detailed link
|
|
quality monitoring by enabling LQM logging. If the peer doesn't agree,
|
|
ppp will send ECHO LQR requests instead. These packets pass no
|
|
information of interest, but they
|
|
.Em MUST
|
|
be replied to by the peer.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Whether using LQR or ECHO LQR,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will abruptly drop the connection if 5 unacknowledged packets have been
|
|
sent rather than sending a 6th. A message is logged at the
|
|
.Em PHASE
|
|
level, and any appropriate
|
|
.Dq reconnect
|
|
values are honoured as if the peer were responsible for dropping the
|
|
connection.
|
|
.It pap
|
|
Default: Disabled and Accepted. PAP stands for Password Authentication
|
|
Protocol. Only one of PAP and CHAP (above) may be negotiated. With
|
|
PAP, the ID and Password are sent repeatedly to the peer until
|
|
authentication is acknowledged or the connection is terminated. This
|
|
is a rather poor security mechanism. It is only performed when the
|
|
connection is first established.
|
|
If you want to have your peer authenticate itself, you must
|
|
.Dq enable pap .
|
|
in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ,
|
|
and have an entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
for the peer (although see the
|
|
.Dq passwdauth
|
|
option below).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When using PAP as the client, you need only specify
|
|
.Dq AuthName
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq AuthKey
|
|
in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf .
|
|
PAP is accepted by default.
|
|
.It pred1
|
|
Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option decides if Predictor 1
|
|
compression will be used by the Compression Control Protocol (CCP).
|
|
.It protocomp
|
|
Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option is used to negotiate
|
|
PFC (Protocol Field Compression), a mechanism where the protocol
|
|
field number is reduced to one octet rather than two.
|
|
.It shortseq
|
|
Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option determines if
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will request and accept requests for short
|
|
.Pq 12 bit
|
|
sequence numbers when negotiating multi-link mode. This is only
|
|
applicable if our MRRU is set (thus enabling multi-link).
|
|
.It vjcomp
|
|
Default: Enabled and Accepted. This option determines if Van Jacobson
|
|
header compression will be used.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The following options are not actually negotiated with the peer.
|
|
Therefore, accepting or denying them makes no sense.
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It idcheck
|
|
Default: Enabled. When
|
|
.Nm
|
|
exchanges low-level LCP, CCP and IPCP configuration traffic, the
|
|
.Em Identifier
|
|
field of any replies is expected to be the same as that of the request.
|
|
By default,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
drops any reply packets that do not contain the expected identifier
|
|
field, reporting the fact at the respective log level. If
|
|
.Ar idcheck
|
|
is disabled,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will ignore the identifier field.
|
|
.It loopback
|
|
Default: Enabled. When
|
|
.Ar loopback
|
|
is enabled,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will automatically loop back packets being sent
|
|
out with a destination address equal to that of the
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
interface. If disabled,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will send the packet, probably resulting in an ICMP redirect from
|
|
the other end. It is convenient to have this option enabled when
|
|
the interface is also the default route as it avoids the necessity
|
|
of a loopback route.
|
|
.It passwdauth
|
|
Default: Disabled. Enabling this option will tell the PAP authentication
|
|
code to use the password database (see
|
|
.Xr passwd 5 )
|
|
to authenticate the caller if they cannot be found in the
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
file.
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
is always checked first. If you wish to use passwords from
|
|
.Xr passwd 5 ,
|
|
but also to specify an IP number or label for a given client, use
|
|
.Dq \&*
|
|
as the client password in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret .
|
|
.It proxy
|
|
Default: Disabled. Enabling this option will tell
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to proxy ARP for the peer.
|
|
.It proxyall
|
|
Default: Disabled. Enabling this will tell
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to add proxy arp entries for every IP address in all class C or
|
|
smaller subnets routed via the tun interface.
|
|
.It sroutes
|
|
Default: Enabled. When the
|
|
.Dq add
|
|
command is used with the
|
|
.Dv HISADDR
|
|
or
|
|
.Dv MYADDR
|
|
values, entries are stored in the
|
|
.Sq stick route
|
|
list. Each time
|
|
.Dv HISADDR
|
|
or
|
|
.Dv MYADDR
|
|
change, this list is re-applied to the routing table.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Disabling this option will prevent the re-application of sticky routes,
|
|
although the
|
|
.Sq stick route
|
|
list will still be maintained.
|
|
.It throughput
|
|
Default: Enabled. This option tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to gather throughput statistics. Input and output is sampled over
|
|
a rolling 5 second window, and current, best and total figures are
|
|
retained. This data is output when the relevant
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
layer shuts down, and is also available using the
|
|
.Dq show
|
|
command. Throughput statistics are available at the
|
|
.Dq IPCP
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq modem
|
|
levels.
|
|
.It utmp
|
|
Default: Enabled. Normally, when a user is authenticated using PAP or
|
|
CHAP, and when
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is running in
|
|
.Fl direct
|
|
mode, an entry is made in the utmp and wtmp files for that user. Disabling
|
|
this option will tell
|
|
.Nm
|
|
not to make any utmp or wtmp entries. This is usually only necessary if
|
|
you require the user to both login and authenticate themselves.
|
|
.It iface-alias
|
|
Default: Enabled if
|
|
.Fl alias
|
|
is specified. This option simply tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to add new interface addresses to the interface rather than replacing them.
|
|
The option can only be enabled if IP aliasing is enabled
|
|
.Pq Dq alias enable yes .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
With this option enabled,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will pass traffic for old interface addresses through the IP alias engine
|
|
.Pq see Xr libalias 5 ,
|
|
resulting in the ability (in
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode) to properly connect the process that caused the PPP link to
|
|
come up in the first place.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Disabling IP aliasing with
|
|
.Dq alias enable off
|
|
will also disable
|
|
.Sq iface-alias .
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It add[!] Ar dest[/nn] [mask] gateway
|
|
.Ar Dest
|
|
is the destination IP address. The netmask is specified either as a
|
|
number of bits with
|
|
.Ar /nn
|
|
or as an IP number using
|
|
.Ar mask .
|
|
.Ar 0 0
|
|
or simply
|
|
.Ar 0
|
|
with no mask refers to the default route. It is also possible to use the
|
|
literal name
|
|
.Sq default
|
|
instead of
|
|
.Ar 0 .
|
|
.Ar Gateway
|
|
is the next hop gateway to get to the given
|
|
.Ar dest
|
|
machine/network. Refer to the
|
|
.Xr route 8
|
|
command for further details.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is possible to use the symbolic names
|
|
.Sq MYADDR
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq HISADDR
|
|
as the destination, and
|
|
.Sq HISADDR
|
|
as the
|
|
.Ar gateway .
|
|
.Sq MYADDR
|
|
is replaced with the interface address and
|
|
.Sq HISADDR
|
|
is replaced with the interface destination (peer) address.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the
|
|
.Ar add!
|
|
command is used
|
|
.Pq note the trailing Dq \&! ,
|
|
then if the route already exists, it will be updated as with the
|
|
.Sq route change
|
|
command (see
|
|
.Xr route 8
|
|
for further details).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Routes that contain the
|
|
.Dq HISADDR
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq MYADDR
|
|
constants are considered
|
|
.Sq sticky .
|
|
They are stored in a list (use
|
|
.Dq show ipcp
|
|
to see the list), and each time the value of
|
|
.Dv HISADDR
|
|
or
|
|
.Dv MYADDR
|
|
changes, the appropriate routing table entries are updated. This facility
|
|
may be disabled using
|
|
.Dq disable sroutes .
|
|
.It allow Ar command Op Ar args
|
|
This command controls access to
|
|
.Nm
|
|
and its configuration files. It is possible to allow user-level access,
|
|
depending on the configuration file label and on the mode that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is being run in. For example, you may wish to configure
|
|
.Nm
|
|
so that only user
|
|
.Sq fred
|
|
may access label
|
|
.Sq fredlabel
|
|
in
|
|
.Fl background
|
|
mode.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
User id 0 is immune to these commands.
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It allow user[s] Ar logname...
|
|
By default, only user id 0 is allowed access to
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
If this command is used, all of the listed users are allowed access to
|
|
the section in which the
|
|
.Dq allow users
|
|
command is found. The
|
|
.Sq default
|
|
section is always checked first (even though it is only ever automatically
|
|
loaded at startup). Each successive
|
|
.Dq allow users
|
|
command overrides the previous one, so it's possible to allow users access
|
|
to everything except a given label by specifying default users in the
|
|
.Sq default
|
|
section, and then specifying a new user list for that label.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If user
|
|
.Sq *
|
|
is specified, access is allowed to all users.
|
|
.It allow mode[s] Ar modelist...
|
|
By default, access using any
|
|
.Nm
|
|
mode is possible. If this command is used, it restricts the access
|
|
mode allowed to load the label under which this command is specified.
|
|
Again, as with the
|
|
.Dq allow users
|
|
command, each
|
|
.Dq allow modes
|
|
command overrides the previous, and the
|
|
.Sq default
|
|
section is always checked first.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Possible modes are:
|
|
.Sq interactive ,
|
|
.Sq auto ,
|
|
.Sq direct ,
|
|
.Sq dedicated ,
|
|
.Sq ddial ,
|
|
.Sq background
|
|
and
|
|
.Sq * .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When running in multi-link mode, a section can be loaded if it allows
|
|
.Em any
|
|
of the currently existing line modes.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It alias Ar command Op Ar args
|
|
This command allows the control of the aliasing (or masquerading)
|
|
facilities that are built into
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
If aliasing is enabled on your system (it may be omitted at compile time),
|
|
the following commands are possible:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It alias enable [yes|no]
|
|
This command either switches aliasing on or turns it off.
|
|
The
|
|
.Fl alias
|
|
command line flag is synonymous with
|
|
.Dq alias enable yes .
|
|
.It alias port Op Ar proto targetIP:targetPORT [aliasIP:]aliasPORT
|
|
This command allows us to redirect connections arriving at
|
|
.Ar aliasPORT
|
|
for machine
|
|
.Ar aliasIP
|
|
to
|
|
.Ar targetPORT
|
|
on
|
|
.Ar targetIP .
|
|
.Ar Proto
|
|
may be either
|
|
.Sq tcp
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq udp ,
|
|
and only connections of the given protocol
|
|
are matched. This option is useful if you wish to run things like
|
|
Internet phone on the machines behind your gateway.
|
|
.It alias addr Op Ar addr_local addr_alias
|
|
This command allows data for
|
|
.Ar addr_alias
|
|
to be redirected to
|
|
.Ar addr_local .
|
|
It is useful if you own a small number of real IP numbers that
|
|
you wish to map to specific machines behind your gateway.
|
|
.It alias deny_incoming [yes|no]
|
|
If set to yes, this command will refuse all incoming connections
|
|
by dropping the packets in much the same way as a firewall would.
|
|
.It alias help|?
|
|
This command gives a summary of available alias commands.
|
|
.It alias log [yes|no]
|
|
This option causes various aliasing statistics and information to
|
|
be logged to the file
|
|
.Pa /var/log/alias.log .
|
|
.It alias same_ports [yes|no]
|
|
When enabled, this command will tell the alias library attempt to
|
|
avoid changing the port number on outgoing packets. This is useful
|
|
if you want to support protocols such as RPC and LPD which require
|
|
connections to come from a well known port.
|
|
.It alias use_sockets [yes|no]
|
|
When enabled, this option tells the alias library to create a
|
|
socket so that it can guarantee a correct incoming ftp data or
|
|
IRC connection.
|
|
.It alias unregistered_only [yes|no]
|
|
Only alter outgoing packets with an unregistered source ad-
|
|
dress. According to RFC 1918, unregistered source addresses
|
|
are 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
These commands are also discussed in the file
|
|
.Pa README.alias
|
|
which comes with the source distribution.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It [!]bg Ar command
|
|
The given
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is executed in the background with the following words replaced:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width PEER_ENDDISC
|
|
.It Li AUTHNAME
|
|
This is replaced with the local
|
|
.Ar authname
|
|
value. See the
|
|
.Dq set authname
|
|
command below.
|
|
.It Li ENDDISC
|
|
This is replaced with the local endpoint discriminator value. See the
|
|
.Dq set enddisc
|
|
command below.
|
|
.It Li HISADDR
|
|
This is replaced with the peers IP number.
|
|
.It Li INTERFACE
|
|
This is replaced with the name of the interface that's in use.
|
|
.It Li LABEL
|
|
This is replaced with the last label name used. A label may be specified
|
|
on the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
command line, via the
|
|
.Dq load
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq dial
|
|
commands and in the
|
|
.Pa ppp.secret
|
|
file.
|
|
.It Li MYADDR
|
|
This is replaced with the IP number assigned to the local interface.
|
|
.It Li PEER_ENDDISC
|
|
This is replaced with the value of the peers endpoint discriminator.
|
|
.It Li PROCESSID
|
|
This is replaced with the current process id.
|
|
.It Li USER
|
|
This is replaced with the username that has been authenticated with PAP or
|
|
CHAP. Normally, this variable is assigned only in -direct mode. This value
|
|
is available irrespective of whether utmp logging is enabled.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
These substitutions are also done by the
|
|
.Dq set proctitle
|
|
command.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If you wish to pause
|
|
.Nm
|
|
while the command executes, use the
|
|
.Dq shell
|
|
command instead.
|
|
.It clear modem|ipcp Op current|overall|peak...
|
|
Clear the specified throughput values at either the
|
|
.Dq modem
|
|
or
|
|
.Dq ipcp
|
|
level. If
|
|
.Dq modem
|
|
is specified, context must be given (see the
|
|
.Dq link
|
|
command below). If no second argument is given, all values are
|
|
cleared.
|
|
.It clone Ar name[,name]...
|
|
Clone the specified link, creating one or more new links according to the
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
argument(s). This command must be used from the
|
|
.Dq link
|
|
command below unless you've only got a single link (in which case that
|
|
link becomes the default). Links may be removed using the
|
|
.Dq remove
|
|
command below.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default link name is
|
|
.Dq deflink .
|
|
.It close Op lcp|ccp[!]
|
|
If no arguments are given, the relevant protocol layers will be brought
|
|
down and the link will be closed. If
|
|
.Dq lcp
|
|
is specified, the LCP layer is brought down, but
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will not bring the link offline. It is subsequently possible to use
|
|
.Dq term
|
|
.Pq see below
|
|
to talk to the peer machine if, for example, something like
|
|
.Dq slirp
|
|
is being used. If
|
|
.Dq ccp
|
|
is specified, only the relevant compression layer is closed. If the
|
|
.Dq \&!
|
|
is used, the compression layer will remain in the closed state, otherwise
|
|
it will re-enter the STOPPED state, waiting for the peer to initiate
|
|
further CCP negotiation. In any event, this command does not disconnect
|
|
the user from
|
|
.Nm
|
|
or exit
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
See the
|
|
.Dq quit
|
|
command below.
|
|
.It delete[!] Ar dest
|
|
This command deletes the route with the given
|
|
.Ar dest
|
|
IP address. If
|
|
.Ar dest
|
|
is specified as
|
|
.Sq ALL ,
|
|
all non-direct entries in the routing table for the current interface,
|
|
and all
|
|
.Sq sticky route
|
|
entries are deleted. If
|
|
.Ar dest
|
|
is specified as
|
|
.Sq default ,
|
|
the default route is deleted.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the
|
|
.Ar delete!
|
|
command is used
|
|
.Pq note the trailing Dq \&! ,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will not complain if the route does not already exist.
|
|
.It dial|call Op Ar label
|
|
When used with no argument, this command is the same as the
|
|
.Dq open
|
|
command. When one or more
|
|
.Ar label
|
|
is specified, a
|
|
.Dq load
|
|
will be done first.
|
|
.It down Op Ar lcp|ccp
|
|
Bring the relevant layer down ungracefully, as if the underlying layer
|
|
had become unavailable. It's not considered polite to use this command on
|
|
a Finite State Machine that's in the OPEN state. If no arguments are
|
|
supplied, the entire link is closed (or if no context is given, all links
|
|
are terminated). If
|
|
.Sq lcp
|
|
is specified, the
|
|
.Em LCP
|
|
layer is terminated but the modem is not brought offline and the link
|
|
is not closed. If
|
|
.Sq ccp
|
|
is specified, only the relevant compression layer(s) are terminated.
|
|
.It help|? Op Ar command
|
|
Show a list of available commands. If
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is specified, show the usage string for that command.
|
|
.It iface Ar command Op args
|
|
This command is used to control the interface used by
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
.Ar Command
|
|
may be one of the following:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It iface add[!] Ar addr[[/bits| mask] peer]
|
|
Add the given
|
|
.Ar addr mask peer
|
|
combination to the interface. Instead of specifying
|
|
.Ar mask ,
|
|
.Ar /bits
|
|
can be used
|
|
.Pq with no space between \&it and Ar addr .
|
|
If the given address already exists, the command fails unless the
|
|
.Dq \&!
|
|
is used - in which case the previous interface address entry is overwritten
|
|
with the new one, allowing a change of netmask or peer address.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If only
|
|
.Ar addr
|
|
is specified,
|
|
.Ar bits
|
|
defaults to
|
|
.Dq 32
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar peer
|
|
defaults to
|
|
.Dq 255.255.255.255 .
|
|
This address (the broadcast address) is the only duplicate peer address that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
allows.
|
|
.It iface clear
|
|
If this command is used while
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is in the OPENED state or while in
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode, all addresses except for the IPCP negotiated address are deleted
|
|
from the interface. If
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is not in the OPENED state and is not in
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode, all interface addresses are deleted.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It iface delete[!]|rm[!] Ar addr
|
|
This command deletes the given
|
|
.Ar addr
|
|
from the interface. If the
|
|
.Dq \&!
|
|
is used, no error is given if the address isn't currently assigned to
|
|
the interface (and no deletion takes place).
|
|
.It iface show
|
|
Shows the current state and current addresses for the interface. It is
|
|
much the same as running
|
|
.Dq ifconfig INTERFACE .
|
|
.It iface help Op Ar sub-command
|
|
This command, when invoked without
|
|
.Ar sub-command ,
|
|
will show a list of possbile
|
|
.Dq iface
|
|
sub-commands and a brief synopsis for each. When invoked with
|
|
.Ar sub-command ,
|
|
only the synopsis for the given sub-command is shown.
|
|
.El
|
|
.It [data]link Ar name[,name...] command Op Ar args
|
|
This command may prefix any other command if the user wishes to
|
|
specify which link the command should affect. This is only
|
|
applicable after multiple links have been created in Multi-link
|
|
mode using the
|
|
.Dq clone
|
|
command.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Ar Name
|
|
specifies the name of an existing link. If
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
is a comma separated list,
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is executed on each link. If
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
is
|
|
.Dq * ,
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is executed on all links.
|
|
.It load Op Ar label ...
|
|
Load the given
|
|
.Ar label(s)
|
|
from the
|
|
.Pa ppp.conf
|
|
file. If
|
|
.Ar label
|
|
is not given, the
|
|
.Ar default
|
|
label is used.
|
|
.It open Op lcp|ccp|ipcp
|
|
This is the opposite of the
|
|
.Dq close
|
|
command. Using
|
|
.Dq open
|
|
with no arguments is the same as using
|
|
.Dq dial
|
|
with no arguments, where all closed links are brought up (some auto
|
|
links may not come up based on the
|
|
.Dq set autoload
|
|
command) using the current configuration.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the
|
|
.Dq lcp
|
|
while the LCP layer is already open, LCP will be renegotiated. This
|
|
allows various LCP options to be changed, after which
|
|
.Dq open lcp
|
|
can be used to put them into effect. After renegotiating LCP,
|
|
any agreed authentication will also take place.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the
|
|
.Dq ccp
|
|
argument is used, the relevant compression layer is opened. Again,
|
|
if it is already open, it will be renegotiated.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the
|
|
.Dq ipcp
|
|
argument is used, the link will be brought up as normal, but if
|
|
IPCP is already open, it will be renegotiated and the network
|
|
interface will be reconfigured.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is probably not good practice to re-open the PPP state machines
|
|
like this as it's possible that the peer will not behave correctly.
|
|
It
|
|
.Em is
|
|
however useful as a way of forcing the CCP or VJ dictionaries to be reset.
|
|
.It passwd Ar pass
|
|
Specify the password required for access to the full
|
|
.Nm
|
|
command set. This password is required when connecting to the diagnostic
|
|
port (see the
|
|
.Dq set server
|
|
command).
|
|
.Ar Pass
|
|
is specified on the
|
|
.Dq set server
|
|
command line. The value of
|
|
.Ar pass
|
|
is not logged when
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
logging is active, instead, the literal string
|
|
.Sq ********
|
|
is logged.
|
|
.It quit|bye [all]
|
|
If
|
|
.Dq quit
|
|
is executed from the controlling connection or from a command file,
|
|
ppp will exit after closing all connections. Otherwise, if the user
|
|
is connected to a diagnostic socket, the connection is simply dropped.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the
|
|
.Ar
|
|
all argument is given,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will exit despite the source of the command after closing all existing
|
|
connections.
|
|
.It remove|rm
|
|
This command removes the given link. It is only really useful in
|
|
multi-link mode. A link must be
|
|
in the
|
|
.Dv CLOSED
|
|
state before it is removed.
|
|
.It rename|mv Ar name
|
|
This command renames the given link to
|
|
.Ar name .
|
|
It will fail if
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
is already used by another link.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default link name is
|
|
.Sq deflink .
|
|
Renaming it to
|
|
.Sq modem ,
|
|
.Sq cuaa0
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq USR
|
|
may make the log file more readable.
|
|
.It save
|
|
This option is not (yet) implemented.
|
|
.It set[up] Ar var value
|
|
This option allows the setting of any of the following variables:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It set accmap Ar hex-value
|
|
ACCMap stands for Asynchronous Control Character Map. This is always
|
|
negotiated with the peer, and defaults to a value of 00000000 in hex.
|
|
This protocol is required to defeat hardware that depends on passing
|
|
certain characters from end to end (such as XON/XOFF etc).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
For the XON/XOFF scenario, use
|
|
.Dq set accmap 000a0000 .
|
|
.It set authkey|key Ar value
|
|
This sets the authentication key (or password) used in client mode
|
|
PAP or CHAP negotiation to the given value. It can also be used to
|
|
specify the password to be used in the dial or login scripts in place
|
|
of the '\\P' sequence, preventing the actual password from being logged. If
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
logging is in effect,
|
|
.Ar value
|
|
is logged as
|
|
.Sq ********
|
|
for security reasons.
|
|
.It set authname Ar id
|
|
This sets the authentication id used in client mode PAP or CHAP negotiation.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If used in
|
|
.Fl direct
|
|
mode with PAP or CHAP enabled,
|
|
.Ar id
|
|
is used in the initial authentication request and is normally set to
|
|
the local machine name.
|
|
.It set autoload Ar max-duration max-load [min-duration min-load]
|
|
These settings apply only in multi-link mode and all default to zero.
|
|
When more than one
|
|
.Ar demand-dial
|
|
.Pq also known as Fl auto
|
|
mode link is available, only the first link is made active when
|
|
.Nm
|
|
first reads data from the tun device. The next
|
|
.Ar demand-dial
|
|
link will be opened only when at least
|
|
.Ar max-load
|
|
packets have been in the send queue for
|
|
.Ar max-duration
|
|
seconds. Because both values default to zero,
|
|
.Ar demand-dial
|
|
links will simply come up one at a time by default.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If two or more links are open, at least one of which is a
|
|
.Ar demand-dial
|
|
link, a
|
|
.Ar demand-dial
|
|
link will be closed when there is less than
|
|
.Ar min-packets
|
|
in the queue for more than
|
|
.Ar min-duration .
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar min-duration
|
|
is zero, this timer is disabled. Because both values default to zero,
|
|
.Ar demand-dial
|
|
links will stay active until the bundle idle timer expires.
|
|
.It set callback [none|auth|cbcp|E.164 *|number[,number]...]...
|
|
If no arguments are given, callback is disabled, otherwise,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will request (or in
|
|
.Fl direct
|
|
mode, will accept) one of the given protocols. In client mode, if a
|
|
request is NAK'd
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will request another, until no options remain at which point
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will terminate negotiations. In server mode,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will accept any of the given protocols - but the client
|
|
.Em must
|
|
request one of them. If you wish callback to be optional, you must include
|
|
.Ar none
|
|
as an option.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The options are as follows (in this order of preference):
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Bl -tag
|
|
.It auth
|
|
The callee is expected to decide the callback number based on
|
|
authentication. If
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is the callee, the number should be specified as the fifth field of
|
|
the peers entry in
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret .
|
|
.It cbcp
|
|
Microsofts callback control protocol is used. See
|
|
.Dq set cbcp
|
|
below.
|
|
.It E.164 *|number[,number]...
|
|
The caller specifies the
|
|
.Ar number .
|
|
If
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is the callee,
|
|
.Ar number
|
|
should be either a comma seperated list of allowable numbers or a
|
|
.Dq \&* ,
|
|
meaning any number is permitted. If
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is the caller, only a single number should be specified.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note, this option is very unsafe when used with a
|
|
.Dq \&*
|
|
as a malicious caller can tell
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to call any (possibly international) number without first authenticating
|
|
themselves.
|
|
.It none
|
|
If the peer does not wish to do callback at all,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will accept the fact and continue without callback rather than terminating
|
|
the connection. This is required if you wish callback to be optional.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It set cbcp Op *|number[,number]... Op delay Op retry
|
|
If no arguments are given, CBCP (Microsofts CallBack Control Protocol)
|
|
is disabled - ie, configuring CBCP in the
|
|
.Dq set callback
|
|
command will result in
|
|
.Nm
|
|
requesting no callback in the CBCP phase.
|
|
Otherwise,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
attempts to use the given phone
|
|
.Ar number Ns No (s).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
In server mode
|
|
.Pq Fl direct ,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will insist that the client uses one of these numbers, unless
|
|
.Dq \&*
|
|
is used in which case the client is expected to specify the number.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
In client mode,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will attempt to use one of the given numbers (whichever it finds to
|
|
be agreeable with the peer), or if
|
|
.Dq \&*
|
|
is specified,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will expect the peer to specify the number.
|
|
.It set choked Op Ar timeout
|
|
This sets the number of seconds that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will keep a choked output queue before dropping all pending output packets.
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar timeout
|
|
is less than or equal to zero or if
|
|
.Ar timeout
|
|
isn't specified, it is set to the default value of
|
|
.Em 120 seconds .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
A choked output queue occurs when
|
|
.Nm
|
|
has read a certain number of packets from the local network for transmission,
|
|
but cannot send the data due to link failure (the peer is busy etc.).
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
will not read packets indefinitely. Instead, it reads up to
|
|
.Em 20
|
|
packets (or
|
|
.Em 20 No +
|
|
.Em nlinks No *
|
|
.Em 2
|
|
packets in multi-link mode), then stops reading the network interface
|
|
until either
|
|
.Ar timeout
|
|
seconds have passed or at least one packet has been sent.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar timeout
|
|
seconds pass, all pending output packets are dropped.
|
|
.It set ctsrts|crtscts on|off
|
|
This sets hardware flow control. Hardware flow control is
|
|
.Ar on
|
|
by default.
|
|
.It set deflate Ar out-winsize Op Ar in-winsize
|
|
This sets the DEFLATE algorithms default outgoing and incoming window
|
|
sizes. Both
|
|
.Ar out-winsize
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar in-winsize
|
|
must be values between
|
|
.Em 8
|
|
and
|
|
.Em 15 .
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar in-winsize
|
|
is specified,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will insist that this window size is used and will not accept any other
|
|
values from the peer.
|
|
.It set dns Op Ar primary Op Ar secondary
|
|
This command specifies DNS overrides for the
|
|
.Dq accept dns
|
|
command. Refer to the
|
|
.Dq accept
|
|
command description above for details. This command does not affect the
|
|
IP numbers requested using
|
|
.Dq enable dns .
|
|
.It set device|line Ar value[,value...]
|
|
This sets the device(s) to which
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will talk to the given
|
|
.Dq value .
|
|
All serial device names are expected to begin with
|
|
.Pa /dev/ .
|
|
If
|
|
.Dq value
|
|
does not begin with
|
|
.Pa /dev/ ,
|
|
it must either begin with an exclamation mark
|
|
.Pq Dq \&!
|
|
or be of the format
|
|
.Dq host:port .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If it begins with an exclamation mark, the rest of the device name is
|
|
treated as a program name, and that program is executed when the device
|
|
is opened. Standard input, output and error are fed back to
|
|
.Nm
|
|
and are read and written as if they were a regular device.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If a
|
|
.Dq host:port
|
|
pair is given,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will attempt to connect to the given
|
|
.Dq host
|
|
on the given
|
|
.Dq port .
|
|
Refer to the section on
|
|
.Em PPP OVER TCP
|
|
above for further details.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If multiple
|
|
.Dq values
|
|
are specified,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will attempt to open each one in turn until it succeeds or runs out of
|
|
devices.
|
|
.It set dial Ar chat-script
|
|
This specifies the chat script that will be used to dial the other
|
|
side. See also the
|
|
.Dq set login
|
|
command below. Refer to
|
|
.Xr chat 8
|
|
and to the example configuration files for details of the chat script
|
|
format.
|
|
It is possible to specify some special
|
|
.Sq values
|
|
in your chat script as follows:
|
|
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\c
|
|
When used as the last character in a
|
|
.Sq send
|
|
string, this indicates that a newline should not be appended.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\d
|
|
When the chat script encounters this sequence, it delays two seconds.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\p
|
|
When the chat script encounters this sequence, it delays for one quarter of
|
|
a second.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n
|
|
This is replaced with a newline character.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\r
|
|
This is replaced with a carriage return character.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\s
|
|
This is replaced with a space character.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\t
|
|
This is replaced with a tab character.
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\T
|
|
This is replaced by the current phone number (see
|
|
.Dq set phone
|
|
below).
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\P
|
|
This is replaced by the current
|
|
.Ar authkey
|
|
value (see
|
|
.Dq set authkey
|
|
above).
|
|
.It Li \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\U
|
|
This is replaced by the current
|
|
.Ar authname
|
|
value (see
|
|
.Dq set authname
|
|
above).
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note that two parsers will examine these escape sequences, so in order to
|
|
have the
|
|
.Sq chat parser
|
|
see the escape character, it is necessary to escape it from the
|
|
.Sq command parser .
|
|
This means that in practice you should use two escapes, for example:
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set dial "... ATDT\\\\T CONNECT"
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is also possible to execute external commands from the chat script.
|
|
To do this, the first character of the expect or send string is an
|
|
exclamation mark
|
|
.Pq Dq \&! .
|
|
When the command is executed, standard input and standard output are
|
|
directed to the modem device (see the
|
|
.Dq set device
|
|
command), and standard error is read by
|
|
.Nm
|
|
and substituted as the expect or send string. If
|
|
.Nm
|
|
is running in interactive mode, file descriptor 3 is attached to
|
|
.Pa /dev/tty .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
For example (wrapped for readability);
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
set login "TIMEOUT 5 \\"\\" \\"\\" login:--login: ppp \e
|
|
word: ppp \\"!sh \\\\\\\\-c \\\\\\"echo \\\\\\\\-n label: >&2\\\\\\"\\" \e
|
|
\\"!/bin/echo in\\" HELLO"
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
would result in the following chat sequence (output using the
|
|
.Sq set log local chat
|
|
command before dialing):
|
|
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
|
Dial attempt 1 of 1
|
|
dial OK!
|
|
Chat: Expecting:
|
|
Chat: Sending:
|
|
Chat: Expecting: login:--login:
|
|
Chat: Wait for (5): login:
|
|
Chat: Sending: ppp
|
|
Chat: Expecting: word:
|
|
Chat: Wait for (5): word:
|
|
Chat: Sending: ppp
|
|
Chat: Expecting: !sh \\-c "echo \\-n label: >&2"
|
|
Chat: Exec: sh -c "echo -n label: >&2"
|
|
Chat: Wait for (5): !sh \\-c "echo \\-n label: >&2" --> label:
|
|
Chat: Exec: /bin/echo in
|
|
Chat: Sending:
|
|
Chat: Expecting: HELLO
|
|
Chat: Wait for (5): HELLO
|
|
login OK!
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note (again) the use of the escape character, allowing many levels of
|
|
nesting. Here, there are four parsers at work. The first parses the
|
|
original line, reading it as three arguments. The second parses the
|
|
third argument, reading it as 11 arguments. At this point, it is
|
|
important that the
|
|
.Dq \&-
|
|
signs are escaped, otherwise this parser will see them as constituting
|
|
an expect-send-expect sequence. When the
|
|
.Dq \&!
|
|
character is seen, the execution parser reads the first command as three
|
|
arguments, and then
|
|
.Xr sh 1
|
|
itself expands the argument after the
|
|
.Fl c .
|
|
As we wish to send the output back to the modem, in the first example
|
|
we redirect our output to file descriptor 2 (stderr) so that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
itself sends and logs it, and in the second example, we just output to stdout,
|
|
which is attached directly to the modem.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This, of course means that it is possible to execute an entirely external
|
|
.Dq chat
|
|
command rather than using the internal one. See
|
|
.Xr chat 8
|
|
for a good alternative.
|
|
.It set enddisc Op label|IP|MAC|magic|psn value
|
|
This command sets our local endpoint discriminator. If set prior to
|
|
LCP negotiation,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will send the information to the peer using the LCP endpoint discriminator
|
|
option. The following discriminators may be set:
|
|
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
|
|
.It Li label
|
|
The current label is used.
|
|
.It Li IP
|
|
Our local IP number is used. As LCP is negotiated prior to IPCP, it is
|
|
possible that the IPCP layer will subsequently change this value. If
|
|
it does, the endpoint discriminator stays at the old value unless manually
|
|
reset.
|
|
.It Li MAC
|
|
This is similar to the
|
|
.Ar IP
|
|
option above, except that the MAC address associated with the local IP
|
|
number is used. If the local IP number is not resident on any Ethernet
|
|
interface, the command will fail.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
As the local IP number defaults to whatever the machine host name is,
|
|
.Dq set enddisc mac
|
|
is usually done prior to any
|
|
.Dq set ifaddr
|
|
commands.
|
|
.It Li magic
|
|
A 20 digit random number is used.
|
|
.It Li psn Ar value
|
|
The given
|
|
.Ar value
|
|
is used.
|
|
.Ar Value
|
|
should be set to an absolute public switched network number with the
|
|
country code first.
|
|
.Ed
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If no arguments are given, the endpoint discriminator is reset.
|
|
.It set escape Ar value...
|
|
This option is similar to the
|
|
.Dq set accmap
|
|
option above. It allows the user to specify a set of characters that
|
|
will be `escaped' as they travel across the link.
|
|
.It set filter dial|alive|in|out rule-no permit|deny Ar "[src_addr/width] [dst_addr/width] [proto [src [lt|eq|gt port]] [dst [lt|eq|gt port]] [estab] [syn] [finrst]]"
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
supports four filter sets. The
|
|
.Em alive
|
|
filter specifies packets that keep the connection alive - reseting the
|
|
idle timer. The
|
|
.Em dial
|
|
filter specifies packets that cause
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to dial when in
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode. The
|
|
.Em in
|
|
filter specifies packets that are allowed to travel
|
|
into the machine and the
|
|
.Em out
|
|
filter specifies packets that are allowed out of the machine.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Filtering is done prior to any IP alterations that might be done by the
|
|
alias engine. By default all filter sets allow all packets to pass.
|
|
Rules are processed in order according to
|
|
.Ar rule-no .
|
|
Up to 20 rules may be given for each set. If a packet doesn't match
|
|
any of the rules in a given set, it is discarded. In the case of
|
|
.Em in
|
|
and
|
|
.Em out
|
|
filters, this means that the packet is dropped. In the case of
|
|
.Em alive
|
|
filters it means that the packet will not reset the idle timer and in
|
|
the case of
|
|
.Em dial
|
|
filters it means that the packet will not trigger a dial. A packet failing
|
|
to trigger a dial will be dropped rather than queued. Refer to the
|
|
section on PACKET FILTERING above for further details.
|
|
.It set hangup Ar chat-script
|
|
This specifies the chat script that will be used to reset the modem
|
|
before it is closed. It should not normally be necessary, but can
|
|
be used for devices that fail to reset themselves properly on close.
|
|
.It set help|? Op Ar command
|
|
This command gives a summary of available set commands, or if
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is specified, the command usage is shown.
|
|
.It set ifaddr Ar [myaddr [hisaddr [netmask [triggeraddr]]]]
|
|
This command specifies the IP addresses that will be used during
|
|
IPCP negotiation. Addresses are specified using the format
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl a.b.c.d/n
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Where
|
|
.Ar a.b.c.d
|
|
is the preferred IP, but
|
|
.Ar n
|
|
specifies how many bits of the address we will insist on. If
|
|
.Ar /n
|
|
is omitted, it defaults to
|
|
.Ar /32
|
|
unless the IP address is 0.0.0.0 in which case it defaults to
|
|
.Ar /0 .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Ar Hisaddr
|
|
may also be specified as a range of IP numbers in the format
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl a.b.c.d[-d.e.f.g][,h.i.j.k[-l,m,n,o]]...
|
|
.Pp
|
|
for example:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl set ifaddr 10.0.0.1 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.10,10.0.1.20
|
|
.Pp
|
|
will only negotiate
|
|
.Ar 10.0.0.1
|
|
as the local IP number, but may assign any of the given 10 IP
|
|
numbers to the peer. If the peer requests one of these numbers,
|
|
and that number is not already in use,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will grant the peers request. This is useful if the peer wants
|
|
to re-establish a link using the same IP number as was previously
|
|
allocated (thus maintaining any existing tcp connections).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the peer requests an IP number that's either outside
|
|
of this range or is already in use,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will suggest a random unused IP number from the range.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar triggeraddr
|
|
is specified, it is used in place of
|
|
.Ar myaddr
|
|
in the initial IPCP negotiation. However, only an address in the
|
|
.Ar myaddr
|
|
range will be accepted. This is useful when negotiating with some
|
|
.Dv PPP
|
|
implementations that will not assign an IP number unless their peer
|
|
requests
|
|
.Ar 0.0.0.0 .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It should be noted that in
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
mode,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will configure the interface immediately upon reading the
|
|
.Dq set ifaddr
|
|
line in the config file. In any other mode, these values are just
|
|
used for IPCP negotiations, and the interface isn't configured
|
|
until the IPCP layer is up.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note that the
|
|
.Ar HISADDR
|
|
argument may be overridden by the third field in the
|
|
.Pa ppp.secret
|
|
file once the client has authenticated itself
|
|
.Pq if PAP or CHAP are Dq enabled .
|
|
Refer to the
|
|
.Em AUTHENTICATING INCOMING CONNECTIONS
|
|
section for details.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
In all cases, if the interface is already configured,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will try to maintain the interface IP numbers so that any existing
|
|
bound sockets will remain valid.
|
|
.It set ccpretry Ar period
|
|
.It set chapretry Ar period
|
|
.It set ipcpretry Ar period
|
|
.It set lcpretry Ar period
|
|
.It set papretry Ar period
|
|
These commands set the number of seconds that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will wait before resending Finite State Machine (FSM) Request packets.
|
|
The default
|
|
.Ar period
|
|
for all FSMs is 3 seconds (which should suffice in most cases).
|
|
.It set log [local] [+|-] Ns Ar value...
|
|
This command allows the adjustment of the current log level. Refer
|
|
to the Logging Facility section for further details.
|
|
.It set login Ar chat-script
|
|
This
|
|
.Ar chat-script
|
|
compliments the dial-script. If both are specified, the login
|
|
script will be executed after the dial script. Escape sequences
|
|
available in the dial script are also available here.
|
|
.It set lqrperiod Ar frequency
|
|
This command sets the
|
|
.Ar frequency
|
|
in seconds at which
|
|
.Em LQR
|
|
or
|
|
.Em ECHO LQR
|
|
packets are sent. The default is 30 seconds. You must also use the
|
|
.Dq enable lqr
|
|
command if you wish to send LQR requests to the peer.
|
|
.It set mode Ar interactive|auto|ddial|background
|
|
This command allows you to change the
|
|
.Sq mode
|
|
of the specified link. This is normally only useful in multi-link mode,
|
|
but may also be used in uni-link mode.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It is not possible to change a link that is
|
|
.Sq direct
|
|
or
|
|
.Sq dedicated .
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note: If you issue the command
|
|
.Dq set mode auto ,
|
|
and have IP aliasing enabled, it may be useful to
|
|
.Dq enable iface-alias
|
|
afterwards. This will allow
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to do the necessary address translations to enable the process that
|
|
triggers the connection to connect once the link is up despite the
|
|
peer assigning us a new (dynamic) IP address.
|
|
.It set mrru Op Ar value
|
|
Setting this option enables Multi-link PPP negotiations, also known as
|
|
Multi-link Protocol or MP. There is no default MRRU (Maximum
|
|
Reconstructed Receive Unit) value. If no argument is given, multi-link
|
|
mode is disabled.
|
|
.It set mru Op Ar value
|
|
The default MRU (Maximum Receive Unit) is 1500. If it is increased, the
|
|
other side *may* increase its mtu. There is no point in decreasing the
|
|
MRU to below the default as the
|
|
.Em PPP
|
|
protocol *must* be able to accept packets of at least 1500 octets. If
|
|
no argument is given, 1500 is assumed.
|
|
.It set mtu Op Ar value
|
|
The default MTU is 1500. At negotiation time,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will accept whatever MRU or MRRU that the peer wants (assuming it's
|
|
not less than 296 bytes). If the MTU is set,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will not accept MRU/MRRU values less than
|
|
.Ar value .
|
|
When negotiations are complete, the MTU is assigned to the interface, even
|
|
if the peer requested a higher value MRU/MRRU. This can be useful for
|
|
limiting your packet size (giving better bandwidth sharing at the expense
|
|
of more header data).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If no
|
|
.Ar value
|
|
is given, 1500, or whatever the peer asks for is used.
|
|
.It set nbns Op Ar x.x.x.x Op Ar y.y.y.y
|
|
This option allows the setting of the Microsoft NetBIOS name server
|
|
values to be returned at the peers request. If no values are given,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will reject any such requests.
|
|
.It set openmode active|passive Op Ar delay
|
|
By default,
|
|
.Ar openmode
|
|
is always
|
|
.Ar active
|
|
with a one second
|
|
.Ar delay .
|
|
That is,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will always initiate LCP/IPCP/CCP negotiation one second after the line
|
|
comes up. If you want to wait for the peer to initiate negotiations, you
|
|
can use the value
|
|
.Ar passive .
|
|
If you want to initiate negotiations immediately or after more than one
|
|
second, the appropriate
|
|
.Ar delay
|
|
may be specified here in seconds.
|
|
.It set parity odd|even|none|mark
|
|
This allows the line parity to be set. The default value is
|
|
.Ar none .
|
|
.It set phone Ar telno[|telno]...[:telno[|telno]...]...
|
|
This allows the specification of the phone number to be used in
|
|
place of the \\\\T string in the dial and login chat scripts.
|
|
Multiple phone numbers may be given separated by a pipe (|) or
|
|
a colon (:). Numbers after the pipe are only dialed if the dial or login
|
|
script for the previous number failed. Numbers separated by a colon are
|
|
tried sequentially, irrespective of the reason the line was dropped.
|
|
If multiple numbers are given,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will dial them according to these rules until a connection is made, retrying
|
|
the maximum number of times specified by
|
|
.Dq set redial
|
|
below. In
|
|
.Fl background
|
|
mode, each number is attempted at most once.
|
|
.It set [proc]title Op Ar value
|
|
The current process title as displayed by
|
|
.Xr ps 1
|
|
is changed according to
|
|
.Ar value .
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar value
|
|
is not specified, the original process title is restored. All the
|
|
word replacements done by the shell commands (see the
|
|
.Dq bg
|
|
command above) are done here too.
|
|
.It set reconnect Ar timeout ntries
|
|
Should the line drop unexpectedly (due to loss of CD or LQR
|
|
failure), a connection will be re-established after the given
|
|
.Ar timeout .
|
|
The line will be re-connected at most
|
|
.Ar ntries
|
|
times.
|
|
.Ar Ntries
|
|
defaults to zero. A value of
|
|
.Ar random
|
|
for
|
|
.Ar timeout
|
|
will result in a variable pause, somewhere between 0 and 30 seconds.
|
|
.It set recvpipe Op Ar value
|
|
This sets the routing table RECVPIPE value. The optimum value is
|
|
just over twice the MTU value. If
|
|
.Ar value
|
|
is unspecified or zero, the default kernel controlled value is used.
|
|
.It set redial Ar seconds[.nseconds] [attempts]
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
can be instructed to attempt to redial
|
|
.Ar attempts
|
|
times. If more than one phone number is specified (see
|
|
.Dq set phone
|
|
above), a pause of
|
|
.Ar nseconds
|
|
is taken before dialing each number. A pause of
|
|
.Ar seconds
|
|
is taken before starting at the first number again. A value of
|
|
.Ar random
|
|
may be used here in place of
|
|
.Ar seconds
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar nseconds ,
|
|
causing a random delay of between 0 and 30 seconds.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note, this delay will be effective, even after
|
|
.Ar attempts
|
|
has been exceeded, so an immediate manual dial may appear to have
|
|
done nothing. If an immediate dial is required, a
|
|
.Dq \&!
|
|
should immediately follow the
|
|
.Dq open
|
|
keyword. See the
|
|
.Dq open
|
|
description above for further details.
|
|
.It set sendpipe Op Ar value
|
|
This sets the routing table SENDPIPE value. The optimum value is
|
|
just over twice the MTU value. If
|
|
.Ar value
|
|
is unspecified or zero, the default kernel controlled value is used.
|
|
.It set server|socket Ar TcpPort|LocalName|none password Op Ar mask
|
|
This command tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to listen on the given socket or
|
|
.Sq diagnostic port
|
|
for incoming command connections.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The word
|
|
.Ar none
|
|
instructs
|
|
.Nm
|
|
to close any existing socket.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If you wish to specify a local domain socket,
|
|
.Ar LocalName
|
|
must be specified as an absolute file name, otherwise it is assumed
|
|
to be the name or number of a TCP port. You may specify the octal umask that
|
|
should be used with local domain sockets as a four character octal number
|
|
beginning with
|
|
.Sq 0 .
|
|
Refer to
|
|
.Xr umask 2
|
|
for umask details. Refer to
|
|
.Xr services 5
|
|
for details of how to translate TCP port names.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
You must also specify the password that must be entered by the client
|
|
(using the
|
|
.Dq passwd
|
|
command above) when connecting to this socket. If the password is
|
|
specified as an empty string, no password is required for connecting clients.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When specifying a local domain socket, the first
|
|
.Dq %d
|
|
sequence found in the socket name will be replaced with the current
|
|
interface unit number. This is useful when you wish to use the same
|
|
profile for more than one connection.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
In a similar manner TCP sockets may be prefixed with the
|
|
.Dq +
|
|
character, in which case the current interface unit number is added to
|
|
the port number.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
When using
|
|
.Nm
|
|
with a server socket, the
|
|
.Xr pppctl 8
|
|
command is the preferred mechanism of communications. Currently,
|
|
.Xr telnet 1
|
|
can also be used, but link encryption may be implemented in the future, so
|
|
.Xr telnet 1
|
|
should not be relied upon.
|
|
.It set speed Ar value
|
|
This sets the speed of the serial device.
|
|
.It set stopped Ar [LCPseconds [CCPseconds]]
|
|
If this option is set,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will time out after the given FSM (Finite State Machine) has been in
|
|
the stopped state for the given number of
|
|
.Dq seconds .
|
|
This option may be useful if the peer sends a terminate request,
|
|
but never actually closes the connection despite our sending a terminate
|
|
acknowledgement. This is also useful if you wish to
|
|
.Dq set openmode passive
|
|
and time out if the peer doesn't send a Configure Request within the
|
|
given time. Use
|
|
.Dq set log +lcp +ccp
|
|
to make
|
|
.Nm
|
|
log the appropriate state transitions.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The default value is zero, where
|
|
.Nm
|
|
doesn't time out in the stopped state.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This value should not be set to less than the openmode delay (see
|
|
.Dq set openmode
|
|
above).
|
|
.It set timeout Ar idleseconds
|
|
This command allows the setting of the idle timer. Refer to the
|
|
section titled
|
|
.Dq SETTING THE IDLE TIMER
|
|
for further details.
|
|
.It set vj slotcomp on|off
|
|
This command tells
|
|
.Nm
|
|
whether it should attempt to negotiate VJ slot compression. By default,
|
|
slot compression is turned
|
|
.Ar on .
|
|
.It set vj slots Ar nslots
|
|
This command sets the initial number of slots that
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will try to negotiate with the peer when VJ compression is enabled (see the
|
|
.Sq enable
|
|
command above). It defaults to a value of 16.
|
|
.Ar Nslots
|
|
must be between
|
|
.Ar 4
|
|
and
|
|
.Ar 16
|
|
inclusive.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It shell|! Op Ar command
|
|
If
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is not specified a shell is invoked according to the
|
|
.Dv SHELL
|
|
environment variable. Otherwise, the given
|
|
.Ar command
|
|
is executed. Word replacement is done in the same way as for the
|
|
.Dq !bg
|
|
commanad as described above.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Use of the ! character
|
|
requires a following space as with any of the other commands. You should
|
|
note that this command is executed in the foreground -
|
|
.Nm
|
|
will not continue running until this process has exited. Use the
|
|
.Dv bg
|
|
command if you wish processing to happen in the background.
|
|
.It show Ar var
|
|
This command allows the user to examine the following:
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It show bundle
|
|
Show the current bundle settings.
|
|
.It show ccp
|
|
Show the current CCP compression statistics.
|
|
.It show compress
|
|
Show the current VJ compression statistics.
|
|
.It show escape
|
|
Show the current escape characters.
|
|
.It show filter Op Ar name
|
|
List the current rules for the given filter. If
|
|
.Ar name
|
|
is not specified, all filters are shown.
|
|
.It show hdlc
|
|
Show the current HDLC statistics.
|
|
.It show help|?
|
|
Give a summary of available show commands.
|
|
.It show iface
|
|
Show the current interface information
|
|
.Pq the same \&as Dq iface show .
|
|
.It show ipcp
|
|
Show the current IPCP statistics.
|
|
.It show lcp
|
|
Show the current LCP statistics.
|
|
.It show [data]link
|
|
Show high level link information.
|
|
.It show links
|
|
Show a list of available logical links.
|
|
.It show log
|
|
Show the current log values.
|
|
.It show mem
|
|
Show current memory statistics.
|
|
.It show modem
|
|
Show low level link information.
|
|
.It show proto
|
|
Show current protocol totals.
|
|
.It show route
|
|
Show the current routing tables.
|
|
.It show stopped
|
|
Show the current stopped timeouts.
|
|
.It show timer
|
|
Show the active alarm timers.
|
|
.It show version
|
|
Show the current version number of
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.It term
|
|
Go into terminal mode. Characters typed at the keyboard are sent to
|
|
the modem. Characters read from the modem are displayed on the
|
|
screen. When a
|
|
.Nm
|
|
peer is detected on the other side of the modem,
|
|
.Nm
|
|
automatically enables Packet Mode and goes back into command mode.
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sh MORE DETAILS
|
|
.Bl -bullet
|
|
.It
|
|
Read the example configuration files. They are a good source of information.
|
|
.It
|
|
Use
|
|
.Dq help ,
|
|
.Dq alias ? ,
|
|
.Dq enable ? ,
|
|
.Dq set ?
|
|
and
|
|
.Dq show ?
|
|
to get online information about what's available.
|
|
.It
|
|
The following urls contain useful information:
|
|
.Bl -bullet -compact
|
|
.It
|
|
http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html
|
|
.It
|
|
http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/userppp.html
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sh FILES
|
|
.Nm Ppp
|
|
refers to four files:
|
|
.Pa ppp.conf ,
|
|
.Pa ppp.linkup ,
|
|
.Pa ppp.linkdown
|
|
and
|
|
.Pa ppp.secret .
|
|
These files are placed in the
|
|
.Pa /etc/ppp
|
|
directory.
|
|
.Bl -tag -width XX
|
|
.It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
|
|
System default configuration file.
|
|
.It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.secret
|
|
An authorisation file for each system.
|
|
.It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup
|
|
A file to check when
|
|
.Nm
|
|
establishes a network level connection.
|
|
.It Pa /etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown
|
|
A file to check when
|
|
.Nm
|
|
closes a network level connection.
|
|
.It Pa /var/log/ppp.log
|
|
Logging and debugging information file. Note, this name is specified in
|
|
.Pa /etc/syslogd.conf .
|
|
See
|
|
.Xr syslog.conf 5
|
|
for further details.
|
|
.It Pa /var/spool/lock/LCK..*
|
|
tty port locking file. Refer to
|
|
.Xr uucplock 3
|
|
for further details.
|
|
.It Pa /var/run/tunN.pid
|
|
The process id (pid) of the
|
|
.Nm
|
|
program connected to the tunN device, where
|
|
.Sq N
|
|
is the number of the device.
|
|
.It Pa /var/run/ttyXX.if
|
|
The tun interface used by this port. Again, this file is only created in
|
|
.Fl background ,
|
|
.Fl auto
|
|
and
|
|
.Fl ddial
|
|
modes.
|
|
.It Pa /etc/services
|
|
Get port number if port number is using service name.
|
|
.It Pa /var/run/ppp-authname-class-value
|
|
In multi-link mode, local domain sockets are created using the peer
|
|
authentication name
|
|
.Pq Sq authname ,
|
|
the peer endpoint discriminator class
|
|
.Pq Sq class
|
|
and the peer endpoint discriminator value
|
|
.Pq Sq value .
|
|
As the endpoint discriminator value may be a binary value, it is turned
|
|
to HEX to determine the actual file name.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
This socket is used to pass links between different instances of
|
|
.Nm ppp .
|
|
.El
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Sh SEE ALSO
|
|
.Xr at 1 ,
|
|
.Xr ftp 1 ,
|
|
.Xr gzip 1 ,
|
|
.Xr hostname 1 ,
|
|
.Xr login 1 ,
|
|
.Xr tcpdump 1 ,
|
|
.Xr telnet 1 ,
|
|
.Xr syslog 3 ,
|
|
.Xr uucplock 3 ,
|
|
.Xr crontab 5 ,
|
|
.Xr group 5 ,
|
|
.Xr passwd 5 ,
|
|
.Xr resolv.conf 5 ,
|
|
.Xr syslog.conf 5 ,
|
|
.Xr adduser 8 ,
|
|
.Xr chat 8 ,
|
|
.Xr getty 8 ,
|
|
.Xr inetd 8 ,
|
|
.Xr init 8 ,
|
|
.Xr named 8 ,
|
|
.Xr ping 8 ,
|
|
.Xr pppctl 8 ,
|
|
.Xr pppd 8 ,
|
|
.Xr route 8 ,
|
|
.Xr syslogd 8 ,
|
|
.Xr traceroute 8 ,
|
|
.Xr vipw 8
|
|
.Sh HISTORY
|
|
This program was originally written by Toshiharu OHNO (tony-o@iij.ad.jp),
|
|
and was submitted to FreeBSD-2.0.5 by Atsushi Murai (amurai@spec.co.jp).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
It was substantially modified during 1997 by Brian Somers
|
|
(brian@Awfulhak.org), and was ported to OpenBSD in November that year
|
|
(just after the 2.2 release).
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Most of the code was rewritten by Brian Somers in early 1998 when
|
|
multi-link ppp support was added.
|